CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6141

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 12, 1992   Yeas 47   Nays 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 3, 1992   Yeas 96   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6141 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the        House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6141

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                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Erwin, A. Smith, Madsen and Gaspard)

Read first time 01/24/92.Allowing an antiharassment action to be brought in the appropriate judicial district.

     AN ACT Relating to venue for antiharassment petitions; and amending RCW 10.14.160.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 10.14.160 and 1987 c 280 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:

     For the purposes of this chapter an action may be brought in:

     (1) ((Any)) The judicial district of the county in which the alleged acts of unlawful harassment occurred;

     (2) ((Any)) The judicial district of the county where any respondent resides at the time the petition is filed; or

     (3) ((Any)) The judicial district of the county where a respondent may be served if it is the same county or judicial district where a respondent resides.