Passed by the Senate February 11, 2022 Yeas 47 Nays 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 2, 2022 Yeas 96 Nays 0 Speaker of the House of Representatives	CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5575 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. Secretary Secretary
Approved	FILED
	Secretary of State State of Washington

BySenate Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Lovick, Robinson, Das, Liias, Nobles, Padden, Salomon, Stanford, and Wellman; by request of Administrative Office of the Courts)

AN ACT Relating to adding additional superior court judges in Snohomish county; amending RCW 2.08.064; and creating a new section.

There shall be in the counties of Benton and Franklin jointly, seven judges of the superior court; in the county of Clallam, three judges of the superior court; in the county of Jefferson, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Snohomish, ((fifteen))17 judges of the superior court; in the counties of Asotin, Columbia and Garfield jointly, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Cowlitz, five judges of the superior court; in the counties of Klickitat and Skamania jointly, one judge of the superior court.

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