BILL REQ. #:  Z-1065.1 

Read first time 01/12/2006.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

     AN ACT Relating to superior court judges; amending RCW 2.08.064; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 2.08.064 and 2003 c 96 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     There shall be in the counties of Benton and Franklin jointly, six judges of the superior court; in the county of Clallam, ((two)) three judges of the superior court; in the county of Jefferson, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Snohomish, fifteen judges of the superior court; in the counties of Asotin, Columbia and Garfield jointly, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Cowlitz, ((four)) five judges of the superior court; in the counties of Klickitat and Skamania jointly, one judge of the superior court.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The additional judicial positions created by section 1 of this act in Clallam and Cowlitz counties shall be effective only if each county through its duly constituted legislative authority documents its approval of the additional positions and its agreement that it will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of such additional judicial positions as provided by statute.