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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1054

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Addison, Zellinsky, Sanders, Fuhrman, Dobbs, Bond, Isaacson and L. Smith

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Social & Health Services.

AN ACT Relating to the community work and training program; and amending RCW 74.04.477.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 42, chapter 41, Laws of 1983 1st ex. sess. and RCW 74.04.477 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) The department of social and health services shall apply for a waiver from the federal government to implement a state-wide community work and training program for recipients of food stamps in accordance with RCW 74.04.390 through 74.04.470.  ((The program shall be established in two counties, one east and one west of the Cascade Mountains, and shall serve a minimum of one hundred recipients in each fiscal year.))

          (2) Any member of a household participating in the food stamp program who is not exempt under subsection (3) of this section may be required to participate in the community work and training program required in subsection (1) of this section in order to continue to be eligible for food stamps.

          (3) No household member shall be required to participate in the community work and training program who is:

          (a) Determined to have good cause to refuse employment under chapter 74.23 RCW;

          (b) Under eighteen or over sixty years of age;

          (c) A parent or other member of the household responsible for the care of a child under six or of an incapacitated person;

          (d) Employed at least twenty hours a week or participating in another work and training program under this title; or

          (e) A regular participant in a drug addiction or alcohol training program.

          (4) The department shall adopt any rules necessary to administer the community work and training program for food stamp recipients consistent with this title and with federal statutes and regulations.