| Passed by the Senate February 12, 2014 YEAS 49 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House March 13, 2014 YEAS 92 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Hunter G. Goodman, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5981 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. HUNTER G. GOODMAN ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved March 31, 2014, 3:22 p.m. JAY INSLEE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | March 31, 2014 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2014 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/13/14. Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of superior court judges in Mason county; amending RCW 2.08.065; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 2.08.065 and 2007 c 95 s 1 are each amended to read as
follows:
There shall be in the county of Grant, three judges of the superior
court; in the county of Okanogan, two judges of the superior court; in
the county of Mason, ((two)) three judges of the superior court; in the
county of Thurston, eight judges of the superior court; in the counties
of Pacific and Wahkiakum jointly, one judge of the superior court; in
the counties of Ferry, Pend Oreille, and Stevens jointly, two judges of
the superior court; in the county of San Juan, one judge of the
superior court; and in the county of Island, two judges of the superior
court.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 The additional judicial position created by
section 1 of this act in Mason 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.