CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2499

                    Chapter 73, Laws of 1998

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

JURISDICTION OF DISTRICT COURTS IN CIVIL CASES--LONG-ARM STATUTE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/98

Passed by the House February 10, 1998  Yeas 96   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 5, 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 2499  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 - 4:57 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2499

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives Sheahan, Appelwick, McMorris, Radcliff, Alexander, Grant, O'Brien, Doumit, Ogden and Thompson

Read first time 01/14/98.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Extending the long arm statute to district court civil cases. 

    AN ACT Relating to jurisdiction of district courts in civil cases; and amending RCW 3.66.100.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 3.66.100 and 1987 c 442 s 1101 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Every district judge having authority to hear a particular case may issue criminal process in and to any place in the state.

    (2) ((Notwithstanding any provision in the civil rules to the contrary,)) Every district judge having authority to hear a particular case may issue civil process, including writs of execution, attachment, garnishment, and replevin, in and to any place ((in the state)) as permitted by statute or rule.  This statute does not authorize service of process pursuant to RCW 4.28.180 in actions filed pursuant to chapter 12.40 RCW or in civil infraction matters.

    Passed the House February 10, 1998.

    Passed the Senate March 5, 1998.

Approved by the Governor March 20, 1998.

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