CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1398

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 19, 1997   Yeas 91   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 17, 1997   Yeas 48   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1398  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1398

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives Benson, Sheahan, Sump, Wood, O'Brien and Gombosky; by request of Administrator for the Courts

Read first time 01/24/97. 

Creating additional judicial positions in the Spokane superior court.   

    AN ACT Relating to superior court judges; amending RCW 2.08.064 and 2.08.061; and creating new sections.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 2.08.064 and 1993 sp.s. c 14 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    There shall be in the counties of Benton and Franklin jointly, five judges of the superior court; in the county of Clallam, two judges of the superior court; in the county of Jefferson, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Snohomish, ((thirteen)) fifteen judges of the superior court; in the counties of Asotin, Columbia and Garfield jointly, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Cowlitz, four judges of the superior court; in the counties of Klickitat and Skamania jointly, one judge of the superior court.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The additional judicial positions created for the county of Snohomish under section 1 of this act are effective January 1, 1998, but the actual starting dates for these positions may be established by the Snohomish county council upon request of the superior court and by the recommendation of the Snohomish county executive.

    Sec. 3.  RCW 2.08.061 and 1996 c 208 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

    There shall be in the county of King no more than fifty-eight judges of the superior court; in the county of Spokane ((eleven)) thirteen judges of the superior court; and in the county of Pierce ((nineteen)) twenty-four judges of the superior court.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.  (1) The additional judicial positions created by section 3 of this act for the county of Spokane take effect upon the effective date of this act, but the actual starting dates for these positions may be established by the Spokane county commissioners upon the request of the superior court.

    (2) The additional positions created by section 3 of this act for the county of Pierce, take effect as follows:  One additional judicial position is effective January 1, 1998; two positions are effective January 1, 1999; and two positions are effective January 1, 2000.  The actual starting dates for these positions may be established by the Pierce county council upon request of the superior court and by recommendation of the Pierce county executive.

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