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                                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 50

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Fisher, Armstrong, Brekke, Padden, Sayan, Baugher, Rayburn and Taylor; by Department of Social and Health Services request)

Read first time 1/28/85 and passed to Committee on Rules for second reading.

AN ACT Relating to supplemental security income applicants' attorneys' fees; creating a new section; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     Section 37, chapter 41, Laws of 1983 1st ex. sess. shall be applied retroactively by the department of social and health services to all reimbursement of interim assistance received on or after August 23, 1983, so long as the attorney of the applicant for whom reimbursement is received began representing the applicant on or after May 10, 1983.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.