CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6596

Chapter 138, Laws of 2002

57th Legislature

2002 Regular Session

DISTRICT COURT JUDGES--SPOKANE COUNTY

EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/13/02

Passed by the Senate February 13, 2002

YEAS 48 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 6596 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

FILED

March 26, 2002 - 9:13 a.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SENATE BILL 6596

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Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington 57th Legislature 2002 Regular Session

By Senators McCaslin, Brown, Long, Sheahan, Johnson, Kline, Roach and West

Read first time 01/22/2002. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

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

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

Sec. 1. RCW 3.34.010 and 1998 c 64 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, eight; Spokane, ((~~nine~~)) ten; 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.