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 CERTIFICATE
Yeas 49 Nays 0
I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of
the Senate of the State of
DENNY HECK Washington, do hereby certify that
President of the Senate the attached is SENATE BILL 5003 as
passed by the Senate and the House
of Representatives on the dates
hereon set forth.
Passed by the House March 22, 2023
Yeas 96 Nays 1
SARAH BANNISTER
LAURIE JINKINS Secretary
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Approved March 30, 2023 11:40 AM FILED
March 30, 2023
Secretary of State
JAY INSLEE State of Washington
Governor of the State of Washington
 SENATE BILL 5003
Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session
State of Washington 68th Legislature 2023 Regular Session
By Senators 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.
1 AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of district court judges
2 in Snohomish county; and amending RCW 3.34.010.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
4 Sec. 1. RCW 3.34.010 and 2015 3rd sp.s. c 25 s 1 are each
5 amended to read as follows:
6 The number of district judges to be elected in each county shall
7 be: Adams, two; Asotin, one; Benton, five; Chelan, two; Clallam, two;
8 Clark, six; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, three; Douglas, one; Ferry, one;
9 Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, three; Grays Harbor, two;
10 Island, one; Jefferson, one; King, twenty-three in 2009, twenty-five
11 in 2010, and twenty-six in 2011; Kitsap, four; Kittitas, two;
12 Klickitat, two; Lewis, two; Lincoln, one; Mason, one; Okanogan, two;
13 Pacific, two; Pend Oreille, one; Pierce, eleven; San Juan, one;
14 Skagit, three; Skamania, one; Snohomish, ((eight)) nine; Spokane,
15 eight; Stevens, one; Thurston, three; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla,
16 two; Whatcom, two; Whitman, one; Yakima, four. This number may be
17 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.
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Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 30, 2023.
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