CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5135

Chapter 26, Laws of 2009

61st Legislature
2009 Regular Session



DISTRICT COURT JUDGES--KING AND SPOKANE COUNTIES



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/26/09

Passed by the Senate February 26, 2009
  YEAS 46   NAYS 1

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 30, 2009
  YEAS 96   NAYS 1

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 ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5135 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 8, 2009, 3:32 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 9, 2009







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5135
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Passed Legislature - 2009 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2009 Regular Session

By Senators Kline, Tom, McDermott, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Board For Judicial Administration

Read first time 01/14/09.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to the number of district court judges in King county and Spokane 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; 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)) twenty-three in 2009, twenty-five in 2010, and twenty-six in 2011; 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)) eight; 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 February 26, 2009.
         Passed by the House March 30, 2009.
         Approved by the Governor April 8, 2009.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 9, 2009.