CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6566

Chapter 133, Laws of 2012

62nd Legislature
2012 Regular Session



REAL PROPERTY--COMMENCEMENT OF JUDGEMENT LIENS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/07/12

Passed by the Senate February 13, 2012
  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House February 27, 2012
  YEAS 97   NAYS 0

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 6566 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved March 29, 2012, 2:35 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 29, 2012







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6566
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Passed Legislature - 2012 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2012 Regular Session

By Senators Litzow and Hobbs

Read first time 01/31/12.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to when a judgment lien on real property commences; and amending RCW 4.56.200.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 4.56.200 and 2002 c 261 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     The lien of judgments upon the real estate of the judgment debtor shall commence as follows:
     (1) Judgments of the district court of the United States rendered or filed in the county in which the real estate of the judgment debtor is situated, ((and judgments of the superior court for the county in which the real estate of the judgment debtor is situated,)) from the time of the entry or filing thereof;
     (2) Judgments of the superior court for the county in which the real estate of the judgment debtor is situated, from the time of the filing by the county clerk upon the execution docket in accordance with RCW 4.64.030;
     (3)
Judgments of the district court of the United States rendered in any county in this state other than that in which the real estate of the judgment debtor to be affected is situated, judgments of the supreme court of this state, judgments of the court of appeals of this state, and judgments of the superior court for any county other than that in which the real estate of the judgment debtor to be affected is situated, from the time of the filing of a duly certified abstract of such judgment with the county clerk of the county in which the real estate of the judgment debtor to be affected is situated, as provided in this act;
     (((3))) (4) Judgments of a district court of this state rendered or filed as a foreign judgment in a superior court in the county in which the real estate of the judgment debtor is situated, from the time of the filing of a duly certified transcript of the docket of the district court with the county clerk of the county in which such judgment was rendered or filed, and upon such filing said judgment shall become to all intents and purposes a judgment of the superior court for said county; and
     (((4))) (5) Judgments of a district court of this state rendered or filed in a superior court in any other county in this state than that in which the real estate of the judgment debtor to be affected is situated, a transcript of the docket of which has been filed with the county clerk of the county where such judgment was rendered or filed, from the time of filing, with the county clerk of the county in which the real estate of the judgment debtor to be affected is situated, of a duly certified abstract of the record of said judgment in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the certified transcript of the docket of said judgment of said district court was originally filed.


         Passed by the Senate February 13, 2012.
         Passed by the House February 27, 2012.
         Approved by the Governor March 29, 2012.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 29, 2012.