CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5052



63rd Legislature
2013 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate January 30, 2013
  YEAS 48   NAYS 1


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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 17, 2013
  YEAS 91   NAYS 6


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


CERTIFICATE

I, Hunter G. Goodman, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5052 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.


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Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5052
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Passed Legislature - 2013 Regular Session
State of Washington63rd Legislature2013 Regular Session

By Senators Ericksen, Ranker, Shin, Padden, and Kohl-Welles; by request of Board For Judicial Administration

Read first time 01/16/13.   Referred to Committee on Law & Justice .



     AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of superior court judges in Whatcom county; amending RCW 2.08.063; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 2.08.063 and 2005 c 95 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     There shall be in the county of Lincoln one judge of the superior court; in the county of Skagit, four judges of the superior court; in the county of Walla Walla, two judges of the superior court; in the county of Whitman, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Yakima, eight judges of the superior court; in the county of Adams, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Whatcom, ((three)) four judges of the superior court.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The additional judicial position created by section 1 of this act in Whatcom county becomes effective only if the county, through its duly constituted legislative authority, documents its approval of the additional position and its agreement that it will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of the additional judicial position as provided by statute.

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