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SENATE
BILL 5523
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AS
AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/01/93. Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
Expanding authority for appointment of district court judges pro tem.
AN ACT Relating to district court judges pro
tempore; and amending RCW 3.34.130.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 3.34.130 and 1986 c 161 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Each district court shall designate one or
more persons as judge pro tempore who shall serve during the temporary absence,
disqualification, or incapacity of a district judge. The qualifications of a
judge pro tempore shall be the same as for a district judge, except that with
respect to RCW 3.34.060(1), the person appointed need only be a registered
voter of the state. A district that has a population of not more than ten
thousand and that has no person available who meets the qualifications under
RCW 3.34.060 (2)(a) or (b), may appoint as a pro tempore judge a person who has
taken and passed the qualifying examination for the office of district judge as
is provided by rule of the supreme court. A judge pro tempore may sit in
any district of the county for which he or she is appointed. A judge pro
tempore shall be paid the salary authorized by the county legislative
authority. For each day that a judge pro tempore serves in excess of thirty
days during any calendar year, the annual salary of the judge in whose place he
or she serves shall be reduced by an amount equal to one-two hundred fiftieth
of such salary: PROVIDED, That each full time district judge shall have up to
fifteen days annual leave without reduction for service on judicial commissions
established by the legislature or the chief justice of the supreme court. No
reduction in salary shall occur when a judge pro tempore serves while a
district judge is using sick leave granted in accordance with RCW 3.34.100.
(2) The legislature may appropriate money for
the purpose of reimbursing counties for the salaries of judges pro tempore for
certain days in excess of thirty worked per year that the judge pro tempore was
required to work as the result of service by a judge on a commission as
authorized under subsection (1) of this section. No later than September 1 of
each year, each county treasurer shall certify to the administrator for the
courts for the year ending the preceding June 30, the number of days in excess
of thirty that any judge pro tempore was required to work as the result of
service by a judge on a commission as authorized under subsection (1) of this
section. Upon receipt of the certification, the administrator for the courts
shall reimburse the county from money appropriated for that purpose.
