CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2293

                    Chapter 64, Laws of 1998

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

DISTRICT COURT JUDGES--SNOHOMISH COUNTY

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/98

Passed by the House February 6, 1998  Yeas 93   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 3, 1998   Yeas 47   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 2293  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

Approved March 20, 1998 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 20, 1998 - 4:48 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2293

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives Sherstad, Sheahan, Costa, Scott, Dunshee, Anderson and Constantine; by request of Administrator for the Courts

Read first time 01/12/98.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Authorizing Snohomish county to create one additional district court position. 

    AN ACT Relating to the number of district court judges; and amending RCW 3.34.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 3.34.010 and 1995 c 168 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    The number of district judges to be elected in each county shall be:  Adams, two; Asotin, one; Benton, three; Chelan, two; Clallam, two; Clark, five; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, two; Douglas, one; Ferry, one; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, two; Grays Harbor, two; Island, one; Jefferson, one; King, twenty-six; Kitsap, three; Kittitas, two; Klickitat, two; Lewis, two; Lincoln, one; Mason, one; Okanogan, two; Pacific, two; Pend Oreille, one; Pierce, eleven; San Juan, one; Skagit, two; Skamania, one; Snohomish, ((seven)) eight; Spokane, nine; Stevens, one; Thurston, two; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla, two; Whatcom, two; Whitman, one; Yakima, four.  This number may be increased only as provided in RCW 3.34.020.

    Passed the House February 6, 1998.

    Passed the Senate March 3, 1998.

Approved by the Governor March 20, 1998.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 20, 1998.