CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1675

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 8, 1991

  Yeas 96   Nays 0

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 10, 1991

  Yeas 44   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 1675 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 1675

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Inslee, Riley, R. Meyers, Roland, Winsley, Ludwig, Orr, H. Myers and Wineberry.

Read first time February 6, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.Establishing civil docket priority for parties over seventy years of age or terminally ill.

     AN ACT Relating to civil docket priority for parties over seventy years of age or who are terminally ill; and adding a new section to chapter 4.44 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 4.44 RCW to read as follows:

     When setting civil cases for trial, unless otherwise provided by statute, upon motion of a party, the court may give priority to cases in which a party is frail and over seventy years of age or is afflicted with a terminal illness.