CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2721

                   Chapter 244, Laws of 2000

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

ACTIONS AGAINST COUNTIES--VENUE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/8/00

Passed by the House February 8, 2000   Yeas 97   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the House of Representatives               FRANK CHOPP 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.           TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk            CYNTHIA ZEHNDER                           Chief Clerk

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

Approved March 31, 2000 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                            March 31, 2000 - 3:22 p.m.
GARY LOCKE 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 .

Changing provisions relating to venue of actions by or against counties. 

    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.

    Passed the House February 8, 2000.

    Passed the Senate March 2, 2000.

Approved by the Governor March 31, 2000.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 31, 2000.