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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1028

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State of Washington              53rd Legislature             1993 Regular Session

By House Committee on Trade, Economic Development & Housing (originally sponsored by Representatives H. Myers, Vance, Jones, Orr, Flemming, Springer, Shin, Dunshee and Chappell)

Read first time 02/12/93.

Allowing live-in care at mobile home parks.

     AN ACT Relating to live-in care for tenants in mobile home parks; and adding a new section to chapter 59.20 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 59.20 RCW to read as follows:

     A tenant in a mobile home park may share his or her mobile home with any person over eighteen years of age, if that person is providing live-in home health care or live-in hospice care to the tenant under an approved plan of treatment ordered by the tenant's physician.  The live-in care provider is not considered a tenant of the park and shall have no rights of tenancy in the park.  Any agreement between the tenant and the live-in care provider does not change the terms and conditions of the rental agreement between the landlord and the tenant.  The live-in care provider shall comply with the rules of the mobile home park, the rental agreement, and this chapter.  The landlord may not charge a guest fee for the live-in care provider.

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