CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5575
Chapter 46, Laws of 2022
67th Legislature
2022 Regular Session
SNOHOMISH COUNTY—ADDING SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 9, 2022
Passed by the Senate February 11, CERTIFICATE
2022
Yeas 47 Nays 0 I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of
the Senate of the State of
Washington, do hereby certify that
DENNY HECK the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE
President of the Senate BILL 5575 as passed by the Senate
and the House of Representatives on
the dates hereon set forth.
Passed by the House March 2, 2022
Yeas 96 Nays 0 SARAH BANNISTER
Secretary
LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Approved March 11, 2022 10:42 AM FILED
March 11, 2022
Secretary of State
JAY INSLEE State of Washington
Governor of the State of Washington
 SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5575
Passed Legislature - 2022 Regular Session
State of Washington 67th Legislature 2022 Regular Session
By Senate Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Lovick,
Robinson, Das, Liias, Nobles, Padden, Salomon, Stanford, and Wellman;
by request of Administrative Office of the Courts)
READ FIRST TIME 01/21/22.
1 AN ACT Relating to adding additional superior court judges in
2 Snohomish county; amending RCW 2.08.064; and creating a new section.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
4 Sec. 1. RCW 2.08.064 and 2013 c 142 s 1 are each amended to read
5 as follows:
6 There shall be in the counties of Benton and Franklin jointly,
7 seven judges of the superior court; in the county of Clallam, three
8 judges of the superior court; in the county of Jefferson, one judge
9 of the superior court; in the county of Snohomish, ((fifteen)) 17
10 judges of the superior court; in the counties of Asotin, Columbia and
11 Garfield jointly, one judge of the superior court; in the county of
12 Cowlitz, five judges of the superior court; in the counties of
13 Klickitat and Skamania jointly, one judge of the superior court.
14 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. (1) The additional judicial positions
15 created in section 1 of this act are effective only if Snohomish
16 county, through its duly constituted legislative authority, documents
17 its approval of the additional positions and its agreement that it
18 will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state,
19 the expenses of the additional judicial positions as provided by
20 state law and the state Constitution.
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1 (2) The judicial positions created in section 1 of this act are
2 effective July 1, 2022.
Passed by the Senate February 11, 2022.
Passed by the House March 2, 2022.
Approved by the Governor March 11, 2022.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 11, 2022.
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Statutes affected:
Original Bill: 2.08.064
Substitute Bill: 2.08.064
Bill as Passed Legislature: 2.08.064
Session Law: 2.08.064