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CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
                              SENATE BILL 5836
                       Chapter 125, Laws of 2024
                               68th Legislature
                             2024 Regular Session
            CLARK COUNTY—ADDITIONAL SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
                      EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the Senate February 13,                    CERTIFICATE
2024
  Yeas 49 Nays 0                        I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of
                                        the   Senate   of  the   State   of
                                        Washington, do hereby certify that
              DENNY HECK                the attached is SENATE BILL 5836 as
President of the Senate                 passed by the Senate and the House
                                        of Representatives on the dates
                                        hereon set forth.
Passed by the House February 29, 2024
  Yeas 95 Nays 1                                  SARAH BANNISTER
                                                                     Secretary
            LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Approved March 15, 2024 9:56 AM                         FILED
                                                    March 15, 2024
                                                 Secretary of State
              JAY INSLEE                         State of Washington
Governor of the State of Washington
                                 SENATE BILL 5836
                   Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
     State of Washington         68th Legislature       2024 Regular Session
     By Senators L. Wilson, Cleveland, Dhingra, Frame, Mullet, Padden, and
     Rivers; by request of Administrative Office of the Courts
     Prefiled 12/12/23.    Read first time 01/08/24.   Referred to Committee
     on Law & Justice.
 1       AN ACT Relating to adding an additional superior court judge in
 2   Clark county; and amending RCW 2.08.062.
 3   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
 4       Sec. 1. RCW 2.08.062 and 2020 c 53 s 1 are each amended to read
 5   as follows:
 6       There shall be in the county of Chelan four judges of the
 7   superior court; in the county of Douglas one judge of the superior
 8   court; in the county of Clark ((eleven)) 12 judges of the superior
 9   court; in the county of Grays Harbor three judges of the superior
10   court; in the county of Kitsap eight judges of the superior court; in
11   the county of Kittitas two judges of the superior court; in the
12   county of Lewis three judges of the superior court.
          Passed by the Senate February 13, 2024.
          Passed by the House February 29, 2024.
          Approved by the Governor March 15, 2024.
          Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 15, 2024.
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Statutes affected: 
Original Bill: 2.08.062
Bill as Passed Legislature: 2.08.062
Session Law: 2.08.062