BILL REQ. #:  H-0385.1 

Read first time 01/16/13.   Referred to Committee on Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs.

     AN ACT Relating to solemnizing marriages; and amending RCW 26.04.050.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 26.04.050 and 2012 c 3 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     The following named officers and persons, active or retired, are hereby authorized to solemnize marriages, to wit: Justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals, judges of the superior courts, supreme court commissioners, court of appeals commissioners, superior court commissioners, judges of courts of limited jurisdiction as defined in RCW 3.02.010, judges of tribal courts, and any regularly licensed or ordained minister or any priest, imam, rabbi, or similar official of any religious organization((, and judges of courts of limited jurisdiction as defined in RCW 3.02.010)).