CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5102

Chapter 86, Laws of 2009

61st Legislature
2009 Regular Session



DISTRICT COURT JUDGES--BENTON COUNTY



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/26/09

Passed by the Senate January 28, 2009
  YEAS 49   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 6, 2009
  YEAS 92   NAYS 2

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5102 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved April 13, 2009, 3:58 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 14, 2009







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5102
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Passed Legislature - 2009 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2009 Regular Session

By Senators Hewitt, Delvin, and Kline; by request of Board For Judicial Administration

Read first time 01/13/09.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of district court judges in Benton 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 2008 c 63 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)) five; Chelan, two; Clallam, two; Clark, six; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, three; Douglas, one; Ferry, one; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, two; Grays Harbor, two; Island, one; Jefferson, one; King, twenty-one; Kitsap, four; 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, ten; Stevens, one; Thurston, three; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla, two; Whatcom, two; Whitman, one; Yakima, four. This number may be increased only as provided in RCW 3.34.020.


         Passed by the Senate January 28, 2009.
         Passed by the House April 6, 2009.
         Approved by the Governor April 13, 2009.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 14, 2009.