CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1065

Chapter 92, Laws of 2013

63rd Legislature
2013 Regular Session



ARBITRATION--STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/28/13

Passed by the House March 4, 2013
  Yeas 98   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 17, 2013
  Yeas 48   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1065 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved May 1, 2013, 1:44 p.m.








JAY INSLEE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
May 1, 2013







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1065
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Passed Legislature - 2013 Regular Session
State of Washington63rd Legislature2013 Regular Session

By Representative Goodman

Prefiled 01/11/13. Read first time 01/14/13.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to the applicability of statutes of limitation in arbitration proceedings; and amending RCW 7.04A.090.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 7.04A.090 and 2005 c 433 s 9 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) A person initiates an arbitration proceeding by giving notice in a record to the other parties to the agreement to arbitrate in the agreed manner between the parties or, in the absence of agreement, by mail certified or registered, return receipt requested and obtained, or by service as authorized for the initiation of a civil action. The notice must describe the nature of the controversy and the remedy sought.
     (2) Unless a person interposes an objection as to lack or insufficiency of notice under RCW 7.04A.150(3) not later than the commencement of the arbitration hearing, the person's appearance at the hearing waives any objection to lack of or insufficiency of notice.
     (3) A claim sought to be arbitrated is subject to the same limitations of time for the commencement of actions as if the claim had been asserted in a court.


         Passed by the House March 4, 2013.
         Passed by the Senate April 17, 2013.
         Approved by the Governor May 1, 2013.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 1, 2013.