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                          HOUSE BILL 1670

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Appelwick, Costa and Scott

Read first time 02/03/95.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Providing for court facilitator programs.

    AN ACT Relating to courthouse facilitator fee surcharges; and amending RCW 26.12.240.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 26.12.240 and 1993 c 435 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    A county may create a courthouse facilitator program to provide basic services to pro se litigants in family law cases.  The legislative authority of any county may impose user fees or may impose a surcharge of up to ten dollars on ((only those)) superior court civil cases filed under RCW 36.18.020(1) and cases filed under Title 26 RCW, or both, to pay for the expenses of the courthouse facilitator program.  Fees collected under this section shall be collected and deposited in the same manner as other county funds are collected and deposited, and shall be maintained in a separate account to be used as provided in this section.

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