CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6141

 

                               

 

                   Chapter 127, Laws of 1992

 

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

 

 

      ANTIHARASSMENT PETITIONS‑-VENUE FOR BRINGING ACTION

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/92

Passed by the Senate February 12, 1992

  Yeas 47   Nays 0

 

 

 

               JOEL PRITCHARD

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.

 

 

 

                   JOE KING

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

             GORDON A. GOLOB

                                 Secretary

 

 

Approved March 31, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED

 

               March 31, 1992 - 12:28 p.m.

 

 

 

               BOOTH GARDNER

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.


     Passed the Senate February 12, 1992.

     Passed the House March 3, 1992.

Approved by the Governor March 31, 1992.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 31, 1992.