CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5003
Chapter 5, Laws of 2023
68TH LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
DISTRICT COURT JUDGES—SNOHOMISH COUNTY
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 23, 2023
Passed by the Senate January 25, 2023 Yeas 49 Nays 0 DENNY HECK
President of the Senate Passed by the House March 22, 2023 Yeas 96 Nays 1 LAURIE JINKINS
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 SENATE BILL 5003 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. SARAH BANNISTER
Secretary Secretary |
Approved March 30, 2023 11:40 AM | FILED March 30, 2023 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
SENATE BILL 5003
Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session
State of Washington | 68th Legislature | 2023 Regular Session |
BySenators Lovick, Robinson, Dhingra, Liias, Nobles, Stanford, and Torres; by request of Administrative Office of the Courts
Prefiled 12/05/22.Read first time 01/09/23.Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of district court judges in Snohomish county; and amending RCW
3.34.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
3.34.010 and 2015 3rd sp.s. c 25 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The number of district judges to be elected in each county shall be: Adams, two; Asotin, one; Benton, five; Chelan, two; Clallam, two; Clark, six; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, three; Douglas, one; Ferry, one; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, three; Grays Harbor, two; Island, one; Jefferson, one; King, twenty-three in 2009, twenty-five in 2010, and twenty-six in 2011; Kitsap, four; Kittitas, two; Klickitat, two; Lewis, two; Lincoln, one; Mason, one; Okanogan, two; Pacific, two; Pend Oreille, one; Pierce, eleven; San Juan, one; Skagit, three; Skamania, one; Snohomish, ((
eight))
nine; Spokane, eight; Stevens, one; Thurston, three; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla, two; Whatcom, two; Whitman, one; Yakima, four. This number may be increased only as provided in RCW
3.34.020.
Passed by the Senate January 25, 2023.
Passed by the House March 22, 2023.
Approved by the Governor March 30, 2023.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 30, 2023.
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