CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2721

56th Legislature

2000 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 8, 2000

Yeas 97 Nays 0

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate March 2, 2000

Yeas 45 Nays 0

CERTIFICATE

We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2721 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk

President of the Senate

Approved

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2721

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Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

State of Washington 56th Legislature 2000 Regular Session

By House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Morris, Schoesler, Grant, Mastin, Quall, Dunn and Anderson)

Read first time 02/03/2000. Referred to Committee on .

AN ACT Relating to venue of actions by or against counties; and amending RCW 36.01.050.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 36.01.050 and 1997 c 401 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) All actions against any county may be commenced in the superior court of such county, or in the superior court of either of the two nearest ((~~counties~~)) judicial districts. All actions by any county shall be commenced in the superior court of the county in which the defendant resides, or in either of the two ((~~counties~~)) judicial districts nearest to the county bringing the action.

(2) The determination of the nearest ((~~counties~~)) judicial districts is measured by the travel time between county seats using major surface routes, as determined by the office of the administrator for the courts.