CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5981

Chapter 169, Laws of 2014

63rd Legislature
2014 Regular Session



MASON COUNTY--SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/12/14

Passed by the Senate February 12, 2014
  YEAS 49   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 13, 2014
  YEAS 92   NAYS 5

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Hunter G. Goodman, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5981 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

HUNTER G. GOODMAN
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Secretary
Approved March 31, 2014, 3:22 p.m.








JAY INSLEE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 31, 2014







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5981
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Passed Legislature - 2014 Regular Session
State of Washington63rd Legislature2014 Regular Session

By Senators Sheldon, Kline, Hewitt, and Dammeier; by request of Board For Judicial Administration

Read first time 01/13/14.   Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.



     AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of superior court judges in Mason county; amending RCW 2.08.065; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 2.08.065 and 2007 c 95 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     There shall be in the county of Grant, three judges of the superior court; in the county of Okanogan, two judges of the superior court; in the county of Mason, ((two)) three judges of the superior court; in the county of Thurston, eight judges of the superior court; in the counties of Pacific and Wahkiakum jointly, one judge of the superior court; in the counties of Ferry, Pend Oreille, and Stevens jointly, two judges of the superior court; in the county of San Juan, one judge of the superior court; and in the county of Island, two judges of the superior court.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The additional judicial position created by section 1 of this act in Mason county becomes effective only if the county, through its duly constituted legislative authority, documents its approval of the additional position and its agreement that it will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of the additional judicial position as provided by statute.


         Passed by the Senate February 12, 2014.
         Passed by the House March 13, 2014.
         Approved by the Governor March 31, 2014.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 31, 2014.