FINAL BILL REPORT

                  SSB 5142

                           C 24 L 97

                      Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Allowing county clerks to collect civil judgments where the county is the creditor.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Roach, Loveland and Winsley).

Senate Committee on Law & Justice

House Committee on Law & Justice

Background:  Currently, county clerks have the ability to collect (either in-house or through an agency) the court-ordered legal financial obligations ordered pursuant to a misdemeanor or felony conviction.  There is no authority for them to do so when the county is the creditor pursuant to a civil judgment.

Summary:  County clerks may use the same means to collect civil judgments where the county is the creditor as are available against criminal defendants.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate 48 0

House     94 0

Effective:  July 27, 1997