Washington State House of Representatives Office of Program Research | BILL ANALYSIS |
Judiciary Committee |
HB 1064
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Title: An act relating to technical changes to form year designations.
Brief Description: Making technical changes to form year designations.
Sponsors: Representative Goodman; by request of Statute Law Committee.
Brief Summary of Bill |
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Hearing Date: 1/22/13
Staff: Cece Clynch (786-7195).
Background:
Throughout the Revised Code of Washington are a myriad of provisions directing that certain forms, in substantially the form specified in the particular statute, be filed or used. A few examples of such forms include:
Notice of sale.
Writ of garnishment.
Declaration of completion of garnishment.
Lien notice.
Generally, somewhere in the form there is a space where reference to a date is to be inserted. In many of the statutory forms, in the space for the date the century is specified, such as "19__" and "20__".
Summary of Bill:
References in a variety of forms throughout the Revised Code of Washington are amended to remove references to any specific century. Rather than specifying the century in the space where the date is to be inserted, the form language denotes the space to insert the year as follows: " ( year ) "
Appropriation: None.
Fiscal Note: Not requested.
Effective Date: The bill takes effect 90 days after adjournment of the session in which the bill is passed.