CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5151

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 19, 1997   YEAS 46   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 9, 1997   YEAS 98   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5151 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

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

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 5151

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Roach, Johnson, Heavey, McCaslin, Loveland, Snyder and Winsley

Read first time 01/16/97.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Adjusting the jurisdictional amount for district courts.

    AN ACT Relating to civil jurisdiction of district courts; and amending RCW 3.66.020.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 3.66.020 and 1991 c 33 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    If the value of the claim or the amount at issue does not exceed ((twenty-five)) thirty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, costs, and attorneys' fees, the district court shall have jurisdiction and cognizance of the following civil actions and proceedings:

    (1) Actions arising on contract for the recovery of money;

    (2) Actions for damages for injuries to the person, or for taking or detaining personal property, or for injuring personal property, or for an injury to real property when no issue raised by the answer involves the plaintiff's title to or possession of the same and actions to recover the possession of personal property;

    (3) Actions for a penalty;

    (4) Actions upon a bond conditioned for the payment of money, when the amount claimed does not exceed ((twenty-five)) thirty-five thousand dollars, though the penalty of the bond exceeds that sum, the judgment to be given for the sum actually due, not exceeding the amount claimed in the complaint;

    (5) Actions on an undertaking or surety bond taken by the court;

    (6) Actions for damages for fraud in the sale, purchase, or exchange of personal property;

    (7) Proceedings to take and enter judgment on confession of a defendant;

    (8) Proceedings to issue writs of attachment, garnishment and replevin upon goods, chattels, moneys, and effects; and

    (9) All other actions and proceedings of which jurisdiction is specially conferred by statute, when the title to, or right of possession of real property is not involved.

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