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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6056

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Pullen and Owen

Read first time 2/27/89 and referred to Committee on   Law & Justice.

AN ACT Relating to court transcripts; and amending RCW 2.32.240.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 5, chapter 126, Laws of 1913 as last amended by section 2, chapter 3, Laws of 1983 and RCW 2.32.240 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1)  When a record has been taken in any cause as provided in RCW 2.32.180 through 2.32.310, if the court, or either party to the suit or action, or his attorney, request a transcript, the official reporter and clerk of the court shall make, or cause to be made, with reasonable diligence, full and accurate transcript of the testimony and other proceedings, which shall, when certified to as hereinafter provided, be filed with the clerk of the court where such trial is had for the use of the court or parties to the action.  The fees of the reporter and clerk of the court for making such transcript shall be fixed in accordance with costs as allowed in cost bills in civil cases by the supreme court of the state of Washington, and when such transcript is ordered by any party to any suit or action, said fee shall be paid forthwith by the party ordering the same, and in all cases where a transcript is made as provided for under the provisions of RCW 2.32.180 through 2.32.310 the cost thereof shall be taxable as costs in the case, and shall be so taxed as other costs in the case are taxed:  PROVIDED, That when, from and after December 20, 1973, a party has been judicially determined to have a constitutional right to a transcript and to be unable by reason of poverty to pay for such transcript, the court may order said transcript to be made by the official reporter, which transcript fee therefor shall be paid by the state upon submission of appropriate vouchers to the clerk of the supreme court:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That when a transcript is requested, for the purpose of review or appeal of issues dealing with a child's custody, a child's visitation schedule, or a child's residential schedule, the court may order the transcript to be made and require the county, where the case was heard, to pay the transcript fee.