BILL REQ. #:  S-0163.1 



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SENATE BILL 5046
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State of Washington63rd Legislature2013 Regular Session

By Senators Padden, Kline, Keiser, Harper, Shin, and Kohl-Welles

Read first time 01/16/13.   Referred to Committee on Law & Justice .



     AN ACT Relating to modifying the mandatory retirement provision for district judges; and amending RCW 3.74.030.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 3.74.030 and 1984 c 258 s 56 are each amended to read as follows:
     A district judge shall retire from judicial office at the ((end of the calendar year)) expiration of the judge's term of office in which he or she has attained the age of seventy-five years. This provision shall not affect the term to which any such judge shall have been elected or appointed prior to August 11, 1969.

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