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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2451
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By House Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Representatives McDonald, Bush, Van Luven, Dunn, Thompson and Mulliken)
Read first time 02/05/98. Referred to Committee on .
AN ACT Relating to the homestead exemption; and amending RCW 6.13.030.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 6.13.030 and 1993 c 200 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
A homestead may consist of lands, as described in RCW 6.13.010,
regardless of area, but the homestead exemption amount shall not exceed the
lesser of (1) the total net value of the lands, mobile home, improvements, and
other personal property, as described in RCW 6.13.010, or (2) the sum of ((thirty))
thirty-five thousand dollars in the case of lands, mobile home, and
improvements, or the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in the case of other
personal property described in RCW 6.13.010, except where the homestead is
subject to execution, attachment, or seizure by or under any legal process
whatever to satisfy a judgment in favor of any state for failure to pay that
state's income tax on benefits received while a resident of the state of
Washington from a pension or other retirement plan, in which event there shall
be no dollar limit on the value of the exemption.
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