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CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
                               HOUSE BILL 1992
                       Chapter 112, Laws of 2024
                               68th Legislature
                             2024 Regular Session
          WHATCOM COUNTY—ADDITIONAL SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
                      EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the House February 9, 2024                 CERTIFICATE
  Yeas 96 Nays 1
                                       I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the
                                       House of Representatives of the
            LAURIE JINKINS             State of Washington, do hereby
Speaker of the House of                certify that the attached is HOUSE
Representatives                        BILL 1992 as passed by the House of
                                       Representatives and the Senate on
                                       the dates hereon set forth.
Passed by the Senate February 29,
2024                                                BERNARD DEAN
  Yeas 49 Nays 0                                                   Chief Clerk
              DENNY HECK
President of the Senate
Approved March 15, 2024 9:43 AM                         FILED
                                                    March 15, 2024
                                                 Secretary of State
              JAY INSLEE                         State of Washington
Governor of the State of Washington
                                HOUSE BILL 1992
                   Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
     State of Washington       68th Legislature       2024 Regular Session
     By Representatives Timmons, Lekanoff, Ramel, Fosse, and Reeves; by
     request of Administrative Office of the Courts
     Prefiled 12/20/23. Read first time 01/08/24.    Referred to Committee
     on Civil Rights & Judiciary.
 1       AN ACT Relating to adding an additional superior court judge in
 2   Whatcom county; and amending RCW 2.08.063.
 3   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
 4       Sec. 1. RCW 2.08.063 and 2013 c 210 s 1 are each amended to read
 5   as follows:
 6       There shall be in the county of Lincoln one judge of the superior
 7   court; in the county of Skagit, four judges of the superior court; in
 8   the county of Walla Walla, two judges of the superior court; in the
 9   county of Whitman, one judge of the superior court; in the county of
10   Yakima, eight judges of the superior court; in the county of Adams,
11   one judge of the superior court; in the county of Whatcom, ((four))
12   five judges of the superior court.
          Passed by the House February 9, 2024.
          Passed by the Senate 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: 2.08.063
Bill as Passed Legislature: 2.08.063
Session Law: 2.08.063