SF0025

Official summary

Bill No.: <billno> Drafter: <drafterinit> Bill No.: SF0025 Drafter: JHR LSO No.: 10LSO-0066 Effective Date: 7/1/2011 Enrolled Act No.: SEA0053 Chapter No.: Prime Sponsor: Joint Judiciary Interim Committee Catch Title: Liens. Subject: Reorganizes and clarifies the process for filing specified liens. Summary/Major Elements: This bill: o Reorganizes in chronological order, the procedures necessary to perfect and enforce a construction or materialman lien; o Provides that the procedures specified in the act do not apply to the various liens addressed in Chapters 3 through 8 of Title 29, unless specifically provided for therein; o Specifies that the act does not affect enforcement of rights through other legal or equitable means; o Authorizes attorney fees as specified; o Amends substantive rights of the parties as specified; o Expands and clarifies deadlines for filing specified forms; o Specifies the parties who are responsible for filing and sending specified notices and forms, and to whom the notices or forms must be sent; o Provides requirements that apply to each notice or form that is required to be filed to perfect and enforce a lien; o Provides sample forms that, if properly filled out and sent, constitute prima facie evidence of compliance with the requirements for the form; o Amends and creates definitions to clarify the law as it relates to liens; o Conforms existing provisions that were not renumbered; o Applies the act to projects commenced on or after July 1, 2011. Comments: Contains delayed effective date: July 1, 2011