CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2752
Chapter 50, Laws of 2018
65th Legislature
2018 Regular Session
SEARCH WARRANTS--DISTRICT AND MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGES--JURISDICTION
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 7, 2018
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2752
Passed Legislature - 2018 Regular Session
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State of Washington | 65th Legislature | 2018 Regular Session |
By House Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Stanford and Kloba)
READ FIRST TIME 01/25/18.
AN ACT Relating to issuance of search warrants by district and municipal court judges; and amending RCW
2.20.030.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 2.20.030 and 2014 c 93 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
Any district or municipal court judge, in the county in which the offense is alleged to have occurred, may issue a search warrant for any person or evidence located anywhere within the state. If the jurisdiction of a district or municipal court encompasses all or part of more than one county, a judge for that district or municipal court may issue a search warrant for any person or evidence located anywhere within the state as long as the county in which the offense is alleged to have occurred is one of the counties encompassed within that court's jurisdiction.
Passed by the House January 29, 2018.
Passed by the Senate February 27, 2018.
Approved by the Governor March 13, 2018.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 13, 2018.
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