FINAL BILL REPORT

SB 5477

C 239 L 03

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description: Requiring the delivery of endorsements by recording officers.

Sponsors: Senators Shin, Winsley and Schmidt.

Senate Committee on Government Operations & Elections

House Committee on Local Government

Background: Current law requires a county auditor, upon request, to deliver or transmit electronically an endorsed instrument of writing required or permitted by law to be recorded, to the party leaving the document for recording or to the address on the face of the document.

Summary: The recording officer must either electronically transmit the endorsed document or deliver it to the party leaving it for recording or to the address on the face of the document.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate       47  0

House       95  0    (House amended)

Senate       46  0    (Senate concurred)

Effective: July 27, 2003