CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1082

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the House January 12, 1998  Yeas 92   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 27, 1998   Yeas 48   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 HOUSE BILL 1082  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1082

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives McDonald and Sheahan

Read first time 01/13/97.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Extending authority to cite for contempt of court. 

    AN ACT Relating to contempt of court; and amending RCW 7.21.020.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 7.21.020 and 1989 c 373 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    A judge or commissioner of the supreme court, the court of appeals, or the superior court, ((and)) a judge of a court of limited jurisdiction, and a commissioner of a court of limited jurisdiction may impose a sanction for contempt of court under this chapter.

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