CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

Chapter 86, Laws of 2023

2023 REGULAR SESSION

MARRIAGE—SOLEMNIZATION BY FEDERAL JUDICIAL OFFICERS

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 23, 2023

Passed by the House February 13, 2023 Yeas 96 Nays 0 LAURIE JINKINS Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 31, 2023 Yeas 48 Nays 0 DENNY HECK 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 1657 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BERNARD DEAN Chief Clerk Chief Clerk
Approved April 13, 2023 10:05 AM	FILED April 13, 2023
JAY INSLEE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State State of Washington

Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session

2023 Regular Session

ByRepresentatives Street, Cheney, Simmons, Taylor, Ormsby, and Hutchins

Read first time 01/30/23.Referred to Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary.

AN ACT Relating to the authority of justices, judges, and judicial officers of federal courts to solemnize marriages; and amending RCW 26.04.050.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 26.04.050 and 2019 c 52 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

The following named officers and persons, active or retired, are hereby authorized to solemnize marriages, to wit: Justices of the supreme court((,)); judges of the court of appeals((,)); judges of the superior courts((,)); supreme court commissioners((,)); court of appeals commissioners((,)); superior court commissioners((,)); judges and commissioners of courts of limited jurisdiction as defined in RCW 3.02.010((,)); justices of the supreme court of the United States; judges and judicial officers of the federal courts; judges of tribal courts from a federally recognized tribe((,)); and any regularly licensed or ordained minister or any priest, imam, rabbi, or similar official of any religious organization. The solemnization of a marriage by a tribal court judge pursuant to authority under this section does not create tribal court jurisdiction and does not affect state court authority as otherwise provided by law to enter a judgment for purposes of any dissolution, legal separation, or other proceedings related to the marriage that is binding on the parties and entitled to full faith and credit.

Passed by the House February 13, 2023.

Passed by the Senate March 31, 2023.

Approved by the Governor April 13, 2023.

Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 13, 2023.