| Passed by the Senate January 30, 2013 YEAS 48 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House April 17, 2013 YEAS 91 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Hunter G. Goodman, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5052 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. HUNTER G. GOODMAN ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved May 10, 2013, 11:19 a.m. JAY INSLEE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | May 10, 2013 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2013 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/16/13. Referred to Committee on Law & Justice .
AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of superior court judges in Whatcom county; amending RCW 2.08.063; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 2.08.063 and 2005 c 95 s 1 are each amended to read as
follows:
There shall be in the county of Lincoln one judge of the superior
court; in the county of Skagit, four judges of the superior court; in
the county of Walla Walla, two judges of the superior court; in the
county of Whitman, one judge of the superior court; in the county of
Yakima, eight judges of the superior court; in the county of Adams, one
judge of the superior court; in the county of Whatcom, ((three)) four
judges of the superior court.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 The additional judicial position created by
section 1 of this act in Whatcom county becomes effective only if the
county, through its duly constituted legislative authority, documents
its approval of the additional position and its agreement that it will
pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the
expenses of the additional judicial position as provided by statute.