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                           ENGROSSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5441

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators DeJarnatt, Lee, Warnke, Smitherman, Newhouse, Tanner, McDonald and Rasmussen; by request of Joint Select Committee on Unemployment Compensation and Insurance)

Read first time 3/4/87.

AN ACT Relating to local reemployment centers; adding a new chapter to Title 50 RCW; creating a new section; and making an appropriation.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The department of employment security shall establish within each office a service known as a local reemployment center.  In cooperation with the department of social and health services, each reemployment center shall provide information regarding the following services available within the service area:

          (1)  Reemployment assistance;

          (2)  Medical services;

          (3)  Social services including marital counseling;

          (4)  Psychotherapy;

          (5)  Mortgage foreclosure and utilities problems counseling;

          (6)  Drug and alcohol abuse services;

          (7)  Credit counseling; and

          (8)  Other services as deemed appropriate.

!ixEach office shall list in a publication the providers of these services within or closest to the service area.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The employment security department shall be responsible for distribution of the publication.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     The department of social and health services and the department of employment security shall submit a joint report to the governor and to the commerce and labor committees of the house of representatives and the senate prior to the start of the 1989 legislative session.  The report shall assess the effectiveness of the reemployment center services and the publications distributed.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.     Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall constitute a new chapter in Title 50 RCW.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.     The sum of forty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1989, from the general fund to the department of employment security for the purposes of this act.