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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 799

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Scott, Ballard, K. Wilson, Cole, P. King, Ebersole, Long, Haugen, R. King, Todd and Isaacson)

Read first time 3/8/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to school districts' community education programs; amending RCW 28A.58.246 and 28A.58.247; and repealing RCW 28A.58.248.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 120, Laws of 1979 ex. sess. and RCW 28A.58.246 are each amended to read as follows:

          The purposes of ((RCW 28A.58.246 through 28A.58.248)) this section and RCW 28A.58.247 are to:

          (1) Provide educational, recreational, cultural, and other community services and programs through the establishment of the concept of community education with the community school serving as the center for such activity;

          (2) Promote a more efficient and expanded use of existing school buildings and equipment;

          (3) Help provide personnel to work with schools, citizens and with other agencies and groups;

          (4) Provide a wide range of opportunities for all citizens including programs, if resources are available, to promote parenting skills and promote awareness of the problem of child abuse and methods to avoid child abuse; and

          (5) Help develop a sense of community in which the citizens cooperate with the public schools and community agencies and groups to resolve their school and community concerns and to recognize that the schools are available for use by the community day and night, year-round or any time when the programming will not interfere with the preschool through grade twelve program.

        Sec. 2.  Section 1, chapter 138, Laws of 1973 as amended by section 2, chapter 120, Laws of 1979 ex. sess. and RCW 28A.58.247 are each amended to read as follows:

          Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 28B.50.250, 28B.50.530 or any other law, rule, or regulation, any school district is authorized to provide community education programs in the form of instructional, recreational and/or service programs on a noncredit and nontuition  basis, excluding fees for supplies, materials, or instructor costs, for the purpose of stimulating the full educational potential and meeting the needs of the district's residents of all ages, and making the fullest use of the district's school facilities:  PROVIDED,  That school districts are encouraged to provide programs for prospective parents, prospective foster parents, and prospective adoptive parents on the parenting process and on the problems of child abuse and methods to avoid child abuse situations:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That ((such)) community education programs shall be consistent with rules and regulations promulgated by the state superintendent of public instruction governing cooperation between common schools, community college districts, and other civic and governmental organizations which shall have been developed in cooperation with the state board for community college education and shall be programs receiving the approval of said superintendent.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  Section 3, chapter 120, Laws of 1979 ex. sess. and RCW 28A.58.248 are each repealed.