CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 2762

Chapter 63, Laws of 2008

60th Legislature
2008 Regular Session



DISTRICT COURTS--JUDGES--COWLITZ COUNTY



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/12/08

Passed by the House February 13, 2008
  Yeas 95   Nays 1

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 7, 2008
  Yeas 45   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2762 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved March 18, 2008, 2:02 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 19, 2008







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 2762
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Passed Legislature - 2008 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2008 Regular Session

By Representatives Takko, Blake, Orcutt, and Herrera; by request of Board For Judicial Administration

Read first time 01/16/08.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to changing the number of district court judges; and amending RCW 3.34.010.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 3.34.010 and 2005 c 91 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     The number of district judges to be elected in each county shall be: Adams, two; Asotin, one; Benton, three; Chelan, two; Clallam, two; Clark, six; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, ((two)) three; Douglas, one; Ferry, one; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, two; Grays Harbor, two; Island, one; Jefferson, one; King, twenty-one; Kitsap, four; Kittitas, two; Klickitat, two; Lewis, two; Lincoln, one; Mason, one; Okanogan, two; Pacific, two; Pend Oreille, one; Pierce, eleven; San Juan, one; Skagit, two; Skamania, one; Snohomish, eight; Spokane, ten; Stevens, one; Thurston, three; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla, two; Whatcom, two; Whitman, one; Yakima, four. This number may be increased only as provided in RCW 3.34.020.


         Passed by the House February 13, 2008.
         Passed by the Senate March 7, 2008.
         Approved by the Governor March 18, 2008.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 19, 2008.