CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Passed by the Senate January 25, 2023 Yeas 49 Nays 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 22, 2023 Yeas 96 Nays 1 Speaker of the House of Representatives	CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5003 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. Secretary Secretary
Approved	FILED
	Secretary of State State of Washington

Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session

2023 Regular Session

BySenators Lovick, Robinson, Dhingra, Liias, Nobles, Stanford, and Torres; by request of Administrative Office of the Courts

Prefiled 12/05/22.Read first time 01/09/23.Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of district court judges in Snohomish 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 2015 3rd sp.s. c 25 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, five; Chelan, two; Clallam, two; Clark, six; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, three; Douglas, one; Ferry, one; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, three; Grays Harbor, two; Island, one; Jefferson, one; King, 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, three; Skamania, one; Snohomish, ((eight))nine; Spokane, 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.