CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1467

                   Chapter 354, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

              DISTRICT COURT JUDGES‑-NEW POSITIONS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the House March 11, 1991

  Yeas 93   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 12, 1991

  Yeas 45   Nays 0

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Approved May 21, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

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.

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                 May 21, 1991 - 11:29 a.m.

                        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.

     Passed the House March 11, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 12, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 21, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 21, 1991.