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                    HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 4216

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

 

By Representative Cairnes

 

Read first time 01/25/2000.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Amending the state Constitution with respect to judge salaries and benefits.


    BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN LEGISLATIVE SESSION ASSEMBLED:

    THAT, At the next general election to be held in this state the secretary of state shall submit to the qualified voters of the state for their approval and ratification, or rejection, an amendment to Article IV, section 13 of the Constitution of the state of Washington to read as follows:

 

    Article IV, section 13.  No judicial officer, except court commissioners and unsalaried justices of the peace, shall receive to his own use any fees or perquisites of office.  The judges of the supreme court and judges of the superior courts shall severally at stated times, during their continuance in office, receive for their services the salaries prescribed by law therefor, which shall not be increased after their election, nor during the term for which they shall have been elected.  The salaries and benefits of the judges of the supreme court shall be paid by the state.  ((One‑half of the salary)) The salaries and benefits of each of the superior court judges shall be paid by the state((, and the other one‑half by the county or counties for which he is elected.  In cases where a judge is provided for more than one county, that portion of his salary which is to be paid by the counties shall be apportioned between or among them according to the assessed value of their taxable property, to be determined by the assessment next preceding the time for which such salary is to be paid)).

 

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the secretary of state shall cause notice of this constitutional amendment to be published at least four times during the four weeks next preceding the election in every legal newspaper in the state.

 


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