CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2446

 

 

                   Chapter 208, Laws of 1996

 

 

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

 

 

          SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES--ADDITIONAL POSITIONS

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/6/96

Passed by the House March 2, 1996

  Yeas 88   Nays 0

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate February 27, 1996

  Yeas 47   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2446 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

            JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved March 28, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 28, 1996 - 4:27 p.m.

 

 

 

              MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2446

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representative Foreman; by request of Administrator for the Courts)

 

Read first time 02/05/96.

 

Creating two additional superior court positions for Chelan and Douglas counties jointly. 


    AN ACT Relating to superior court judges; amending RCW 2.08.062, 2.08.061, and 2.08.065; and creating new sections.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 2.08.062 and 1995 c 117 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    There shall be in the counties of Chelan and Douglas jointly, ((three)) five judges of the superior court; in the county of Clark 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.  (1) The additional judicial positions created by section 1 of this act are effective only if Chelan and Douglas counties jointly, through their duly constituted legislative authorities, document their approval of the additional positions and their agreement that they will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of the additional judicial positions as provided by state law or the state Constitution.

    (2) The judicial positions created by section 1 of this act shall be effective January 1, 1997.

 

    Sec. 3.  RCW 2.08.061 and 1992 c 189 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    There shall be in the county of King no more than fifty-eight judges of the superior court; in the county of Spokane ((ten)) eleven judges of the superior court; and in the county of Pierce nineteen judges of the superior court.  ((The King county legislative authority may phase in the additional twelve judges, as authorized by the 1992 amendments to this section, over a period of time not to extend beyond July 1, 1996.  No more than two of the additional twelve judges may take office prior to July 1, 1993.))

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4.  The additional judicial position created by section 3 of this act shall be effective only if Spokane 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.

 

    Sec. 5.  RCW 2.08.065 and 1992 c 189 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    There shall be in the county of Grant, two judges of the superior court; in the county of Okanogan, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Mason, two judges of the superior court; in the county of Thurston, ((six)) eight judges of the superior court; in the counties of Pacific and Wahkiakum jointly, one judge of the superior court; in the counties of Ferry, Pend Oreille, and Stevens jointly, two judges of the superior court; and in the counties of San Juan and Island jointly, two judges of the superior court.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 6.  The additional judicial positions created by section 5 of this act are effective only if Thurston county through its duly constituted legislative authority documents its approval of the additional positions and its agreement that it will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of the additional judicial positions as provided by state law or the state Constitution.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 7.  One judicial position created by section 5 of this act shall be effective July 1, 1996; the second position shall be effective July 1, 2000.


    Passed the House March 2, 1996.

    Passed the Senate February 27, 1996.

Approved by the Governor March 28, 1996.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 28, 1996.