BILL REQ. #:  Z-0348.1 

Read first time 01/31/2003.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

     AN ACT Relating to requirements for issuing salary warrants for judges; and amending RCW 2.56.040.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 2.56.040 and 1957 c 259 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     The chief justice shall consider all recommendations of the administrator for the assignment of judges, and, in ((his)) the discretion of the chief justice, direct any judge whose calendar, in the judgment of the chief justice, will permit, to hold court in any county or district where need therefor exists, to the end that the courts of this state shall function with maximum efficiency, and that the work of other courts shall be equitably distributed. It shall be the duty of every judge to obey such direction of the chief justice unless excused by ((him)) the chief justice for sufficient cause. ((No salary warrant shall be issued pursuant to RCW 2.08.100 until the judge who is to receive the same shall have made an affidavit, in the manner provided by law, that he has fully complied with the provisions of RCW 2.56.040 and 2.56.050. Said affidavit may be made a part of the affidavit required by RCW 2.08.100.))