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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5235

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Bauer, Sutherland, Palmer and Smith)

Read first time 01/30/95.

Adding a superior court judge in Clark county.

     AN ACT Relating to superior court judges; amending RCW 2.08.062; and creating a new section.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 2.08.062 and 1992 c 189 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

     There shall be in the counties of Chelan and Douglas jointly, three judges of the superior court; in the county of Clark ((six)) seven judges of the superior court; in the county of Grays Harbor three judges of the superior court; in the county of Kitsap seven judges of the superior court; in the county of Kittitas one judge of the superior court; in the county of Lewis two judges of the superior court.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The additional judicial position created by section 1 of this act is effective only if Clark county through its duly constituted legislative authority documents its approval of the additional position and its agreement that it will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of the additional judicial position as provided by statute.

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