FINAL BILL REPORT

                   SB 5015

                           C 10 L 99

                      Synopsis as Enacted

 

Brief Description:  Changing provisions relating to community mental health services.

 

Sponsors:  Senators Long, Hargrove, Winsley and Costa.

 

Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections

House Committee on Children & Family Services

 

Background:  The RCW chapter on community mental health contains outdated statutory language, including cross references to repealed provisions.  Terms defined in the statute contain two definitions:  one definition for use during a specified time period and another definition for use at a specified date in the future.  The specified future date has come and gone; therefore, the older definition serves no purpose.

 

Summary:  Technical changes, not substantive, are made to the Community Mental Health Services Act.  Dated informa­tion is deleted.  Cross references are corrected.  Some substantive provisions previously contained in a definition are removed and added as new sections.

 

Votes on Final Passage:

 

Senate 46 0

House     92 0

 

Effective:  July 25, 1999