CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2212

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 4, 1994   Yeas 92   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 3, 1994   Yeas 46   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marilyn Showalter, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2212 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2212

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             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Eide, Padden, Appelwick, Wineberry and Johanson)

Read first time 01/28/94.

Determining the number of district court judges.

    AN ACT Relating to the number of district court judges; and amending RCW 3.34.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 3.34.010 and 1991 c 354 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    The number of district judges to be elected in each county shall be:  Adams, ((three)) two; Asotin, one; Benton, two; Chelan, ((one)) two; Clallam, ((one)) two; Clark, ((four)) five; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, two; Douglas, ((one)) two; Ferry, ((two)) one; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, ((one)) two; Grays Harbor, two; Island, ((three)) one; Jefferson, one; King, twenty-six; Kitsap, ((two)) three; Kittitas, two; Klickitat, two; Lewis, two; Lincoln, one; Mason, one; Okanogan, two; Pacific, two; Pend Oreille, ((two)) one; Pierce, eleven; San Juan, one; Skagit, ((three)) two; Skamania, one; Snohomish, ((eight)) seven; Spokane, nine; Stevens, ((two)) one; Thurston, ((one)) two; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla, ((three)) two; Whatcom, two; Whitman, ((two)) one; Yakima, ((six:  PROVIDED, That)) four.  This number may be increased ((in accordance with a resolution of the county commissioners under)) only as provided in RCW 3.34.020.

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