CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1467

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 11, 1991

  Yeas 93   Nays 0

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 12, 1991

  Yeas 45   Nays 0

President of the Senate

Approved

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1467 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                                  HOUSE BILL 1467

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives R. Meyers, Padden, Paris, Tate, Mielke, Broback, Forner, Vance, May, Brough, Winsley, D. Sommers, Mitchell and Roland.

Read first time January 30, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.Increasing the number of district judges.

     AN ACT Relating to district judges; and amending RCW 3.34.010.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 3.34.010 and 1989 c 227 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

     The number of district judges to be elected in each county shall be:  Adams, three; Asotin, one; Benton, two; Chelan, one; Clallam, one; Clark, four; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, two; Douglas, one; Ferry, two; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, one; Grays Harbor, two; Island, three; Jefferson, one; King, ((twenty-four)) twenty-six; Kitsap, two; Kittitas, two; Klickitat, two; Lewis, two; Lincoln, one; Mason, one; Okanogan, two; Pacific, ((three)) two; Pend Oreille, two; Pierce, ((eight)) eleven; San Juan, one; Skagit, three; Skamania, one; Snohomish, eight; Spokane, ((eight)) nine; Stevens, two; Thurston, one; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla, three; Whatcom, two; Whitman, two; Yakima, six:  PROVIDED, That this number may be increased in accordance with a resolution of the county commissioners under RCW 3.34.020.