CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2295
66TH LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House February 19, 2020
  Yeas 98  Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 4, 2020
  Yeas 47  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 SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2295 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
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2295
Passed Legislature - 2020 Regular Session
State of Washington
66th Legislature
2020 Regular Session
ByHouse Civil Rights & Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Goodman, Griffey, Irwin, and Wylie)
READ FIRST TIME 01/21/20.
AN ACT Relating to enforcement of small claims court judgments; and amending RCW 12.40.105.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 12.40.105 and 2019 c 251 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Upon the judge's entry of judgment in a small claims action, the judgment is certified as a district court civil judgment and shall be increased by: (a) The amount specified in RCW 36.18.012(2); (b) any post judgment interest provided for in RCW 4.56.110 and 19.52.020; and (c) any other costs incurred by the prevailing party to enforce the judgment, including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees, without regard to the jurisdictional limits on the small claims department.
(2) The clerk of the small claims department shall enter the civil judgment on the judgment docket of the district court; and, ((as in other judgments of district courts, once the judgment is entered on the district court's docket))if the losing party fails to pay the judgment within thirty days after such entry, garnishment, execution, and other process on execution provided by law may issue thereon.
(3) A certified copy of the district court judgment shall be provided to the prevailing party for no additional fee.
(4) ((The))If the losing party fails to pay the judgment within thirty days after entry of the judgment on the judgment docket of the district court, the prevailing party may file a transcript of the district court civil judgment or a certified copy of the district court judgment with superior courts for entry in the superior courts' lien dockets with like effect as in other cases.
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