CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 6511

 

 

                   Chapter 137, Laws of 2002

 

 

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

 

 

JUDGES PRO TEMPORE

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/13/02

 

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

             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.

 

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approved March 26, 2002 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.   

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 26, 2002 - 9:12 a.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 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 Senators Johnson, Kline, Costa and Winsley; by request of Administrator for the Courts

 

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.