Brief Description: Revising provisions relating to regional law libraries.

Sponsors: Senators Hewitt and Delvin.

Senate Committee on Government Operations & Elections
House Committee on Local Government

Background: Counties with populations of eight thousand and more but less than one hundred twenty-five thousand, may agree to create a regional law library. The counties' board of trustees determines the location of the library. The individual counties must also maintain a library in their local courthouse where their superior court is housed.

Summary: If counties with the requisite populations create a regional law library, that library may continue operating, by continuing agreement of the counties, if any of the individual counties' populations increase beyond one hundred twenty-five thousand.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate      47   0
House      93   1

Effective: July 24, 2005