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                         SENATE BILL 5289

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Johnson, Wojahn, Goings and Oke; by request of Administrator for the Courts

Read first time 01/22/97.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Providing for additional judges for the Pierce county superior court.

    AN ACT Relating to superior court judges; amending RCW 2.08.061; and creating a new section.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 2.08.061 and 1996 c 208 s 3 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 eleven judges of the superior court; and in the county of Pierce ((nineteen)) twenty-four judges of the superior court.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  One additional judicial position created by section 1 of this act is effective January 1, 1998; two positions are effective January 1, 1999; and two positions are effective January 1, 2000.

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