FINAL BILL REPORT

SB 5015

                                   C 3 L 87

BYSenators Halsan, Talmadge, Newhouse and West;by request of Statute Law Committee

Revising terminology regarding municipal courts.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

House Committe on Judiciary

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

There currently remain in the RCW isolated references to police judges and police courts, which are now obsolete.  There are also some substantive provisions regarding municipal courts which were, as a practical matter, superseded by the Court Improvement Act of 1984.

SUMMARY:

References to police judges and police courts are changed to municipal judges and municipal courts.  Isolated substantive provisions and other obsolete statutory language relating to such courts are repealed if they deal with matters addressed in the Court Improvement Act of 1984.  For example, a provision requiring the chief of police to prosecute violations of city ordinances before a police judge is repealed.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      Senate    45     1

      House 91   8

EFFECTIVE:July 26, 1987