CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE
BILL 6511
Chapter
137, Laws of 2002
57th
Legislature
2002
Regular Session
JUDGES PRO TEMPORE
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/13/02
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Passed by the Senate February 15, 2002
YEAS 45 NAYS 0
 BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 6, 2002
YEAS 93 NAYS 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington,
do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6511 as passed by
the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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FRANK CHOPP
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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 TONY M. COOK
Secretary
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Approved March 26, 2002 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March 26, 2002 - 9:12 a.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SENATE
BILL 6511
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Passed
Legislature - 2002 Regular Session
State
of Washington 57th Legislature 2002 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/18/2002. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
Authorizing any sitting elected judge to be a judge pro
tempore.
AN
ACT Relating to judges pro tempore; and amending RCW 2.08.180.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
2.08.180 and 1987 c 73 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
A
case in the superior court of any county may be tried by a judge pro tempore,
who must be either: (1) A member of the bar, agreed upon in writing by
the parties litigant, or their attorneys of record, approved by the court, and
sworn to try the case; ((and his)) or (2) pursuant to supreme court
rule, any sitting elected judge. Any action in the trial of such cause
shall have the same effect as if ((he were)) it was made by a
judge of such court. However, if a previously elected judge of the superior
court retires leaving a pending case in which the judge has made discretionary
rulings, the judge is entitled to hear the pending case as a judge pro tempore without
any written agreement.
A
judge pro tempore shall, before entering upon his or her duties in any
cause, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation:
"I
do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will support the
Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of
Washington, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of
judge pro tempore in the cause wherein . . . . . . is
plaintiff and . . . . . . defendant, according to the
best of my ability."
A
judge pro tempore who is a practicing attorney and who is not a retired justice
of the supreme court or judge of a superior court of the state of Washington,
or who is not an active judge of ((an inferior)) a court of the
state of Washington, shall receive a compensation of one-two hundred ((and))
fiftieth of the annual salary of a superior court judge for each day engaged in
said trial, to be paid in the same manner as the salary of the superior judge.
A judge who is an active judge of ((an inferior)) a court of the
state of Washington shall receive no compensation as judge pro tempore. A
justice or judge who has retired from the supreme court, court of appeals, or
superior court of the state of Washington shall receive compensation as judge pro
tempore in the amount of sixty percent of the amount payable to a judge pro
tempore under this section.
Passed the Senate February 15, 2002.
Passed the House March 6, 2002.
Approved by the Governor
March 26, 2002.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 26, 2002.