CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1730
66TH LEGISLATURE
2019 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House April 18, 2019
  Yeas 94  Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 15, 2019
  Yeas 48  Nays 0
President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1730 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved
FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington
HOUSE BILL 1730
AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2019 Regular Session
State of Washington
66th Legislature
2019 Regular Session
ByRepresentatives Walen, Frame, Jinkins, Macri, and Ormsby
Read first time 01/29/19.Referred to Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary.
AN ACT Relating to the effect of payment or acknowledgment made after the expiration of a limitations period; and amending RCW 4.16.270 and 4.16.280.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 4.16.270 and Code 1881 s 45 are each amended to read as follows:
When any payment ((of principal or interest)) has been or shall be made upon any existing contract prior to its applicable limitation period having expired, whether ((it be))the contract is a bill of exchange, promissory note, bond, or other evidence of indebtedness, if ((such))the payment ((be))is made after ((the same shall have become))it is due, the limitation period shall ((commence))restart from the time the ((last))most recent payment was made. Any payment on the contract made after the limitation period has expired shall not restart, revive, or extend the limitation period.
Sec. 2. RCW 4.16.280 and Code 1881 s 44 are each amended to read as follows:
No acknowledgment or promise shall be sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to take the case out of the operation of this chapter, unless it is contained in some writing signed by the party to be charged thereby; ((but))except, an acknowledgment or promise made after the limitation period has expired shall not restart, revive, or extend the limitation period. This section shall not alter the effect of any payment of principal or interest.
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