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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 390

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representative Armstrong

Read first time 2/1/85 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

AN ACT Relating to garnishment; and amending RCW 7.33.090.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 9, chapter 264, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. and RCW 7.33.090 are each amended to read as follows:

          The writ of garnishment shall set forth the amount which garnishee is required to hold which shall be an amount determined as follows:  (1) The amount of (a) the judgment remaining unsatisfied or (b) if before judgment, the amount prayed for in the complaint; (2) Plus interest to the date of garnishment at the rate specified in the contractual document or the statutory rate, if there be no contractual document; (3) Plus whichever shall be the greater of (((a))) fifty dollars ((or (b) ten percent of (i) the amount of the judgment remaining unsatisfied or (ii) the amount prayed for in the complaint.  The court may, by order, upon a showing of good cause by plaintiff, set a higher amount)) or costs.