Revised Code of Washington
2024 Archive

Chapter 71.34 RCW
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR MINORS
(Formerly: Mental health services for minors)
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Sections
71.34.010Purpose.
71.34.020Definitions.
GENERAL
71.34.300Evaluation and treatment program for minors—Authority's responsibility.
71.34.305Notice to parents, school contacts for referring students to inpatient treatment.
71.34.310Jurisdiction over proceedings under chapter—Venue.
71.34.312Intervention by attorney representing a tribe.
71.34.313Assertion of jurisdiction or authority over tribes prohibited.
71.34.315Mental health commissioners—Authority.
71.34.320Transfer of superior court proceedings to juvenile department.
71.34.325Court proceedings under chapter subject to rules of state supreme court.
71.34.330Attorneys appointed for minors—Compensation.
71.34.335Court records and files confidential—Availability.
71.34.351Delivery of minor to treatment facilities.
71.34.355Rights of minors undergoing treatment—Posting—Waiver—Presumption of incompetency.
71.34.356Possessions of minors undergoing treatment.
71.34.360No detention of minors after eighteenth birthday—Exceptions.
71.34.365Release of minor—Requirements.
71.34.375Family-initiated treatment—Notice to parents of available treatment options.
71.34.377Failure to notify parent or guardian of treatment options—Civil penalty.
71.34.379Notice to parent or guardian—Treatment options—Policy and protocol adoption—Report.
71.34.380Department, department of health, and authority to adopt rules to effectuate chapter.
71.34.385Uniform application of chapter—Training for designated crisis responders.
71.34.387Online training for behavioral health providers—State law and best practices when providing behavioral health services to children, youth, and families.
71.34.3871Stakeholder engagement efforts to measure impacts of the adolescent behavioral health care access act (2019 c 381)—Reports to governor and legislature.
71.34.390Redirection of Title XIX funds to fund placements within the state.
71.34.395Availability of treatment does not create right to obtain public funds.
71.34.400Eligibility for medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW—Payment by authority.
71.34.405Liability for costs of minor's treatment and care—Rules.
71.34.406Liability of costs of minor's treatment—Involuntary detention—Rules.
71.34.410Liability for performance of duties under this chapter limited.
71.34.415Judicial services—Civil commitment cases—Reimbursement.
71.34.420Evaluation and treatment services—Unavailability—Single bed certification.
71.34.430Release of adolescent's mental health information to parent without adolescent's consent.
71.34.440Detention of minors—Permission to leave facility.
71.34.445Temporary detention for evaluation regarding involuntary commitment.
ADOLESCENT-INITIATED TREATMENT
71.34.500Self-admission of adolescent for inpatient behavioral health treatment or substance use disorder treatment—Requirements.
71.34.510Notice to parents of adolescent voluntarily admitted to inpatient treatment—When required—Duties of professional person in charge—Form of notice.
71.34.520Notice of intent to leave inpatient treatment by adolescent voluntarily admitted—Duties of receiving staff member—Time frame for discharge of adolescent.
71.34.530Outpatient treatment of adolescent.
FAMILY-INITIATED TREATMENT
71.34.600Parental request for determination of whether adolescent has a behavioral health disorder requiring inpatient treatment—Adolescent's consent not required for admission, evaluation, and treatment—Duties and obligations of professional person and facility.
71.34.610Authority's review of medical necessity of inpatient treatment of adolescent admitted to a facility due to parental request—Required considerations in making determination—Procedures for release—At-risk youth petition—Costs—Public funds.
71.34.620Adolescent's court petition for release from inpatient treatment facility—Judicial review of medical necessity.
71.34.630Adolescent not released from inpatient treatment facility by court petition—Release within thirty days—Initiation of proceedings to stop release.
71.34.640Evaluation of treatment of adolescents.
71.34.650Parental request for determination of whether adolescent has a behavioral health disorder requiring outpatient treatment—Adolescent's consent not required for evaluation and certain treatment—Treatment reviews—Discharge.
71.34.660Limitation on liability for admitting or accepting adolescent.
71.34.670"Appropriately trained professional person" defined by rule.
71.34.680Data collection and tracking system for adolescents receiving treatment.
INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT
71.34.700Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Temporary detention.
71.34.705Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Considerations.
71.34.706Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Considerations.
71.34.710Adolescent who presents likelihood of serious harm or is gravely disabled—Transport to inpatient facility—Petition for initial detention—Notice—Facility to evaluate and admit or release adolescent.
71.34.720Examination and evaluation of minor approved for inpatient admission—Referral to a secure withdrawal management and stabilization facility or substance use disorder treatment program—Right to communication, exception—Evaluation and treatment period.
71.34.730Petition for fourteen-day commitment—Requirements.
71.34.735Commitment hearing—Continuance or postponement.
71.34.740Commitment hearing—Requirements—Findings by court—Commitment—Release.
71.34.750Petition for one hundred eighty-day commitment—Hearing—Requirements—Findings by court—Commitment order—Release—Successive commitments.
71.34.755Less restrictive alternative treatment—Requirements.
71.34.760Placement of minor in state evaluation and treatment facility or substance use disorder treatment program—Placement committee—Facility or program to report to committee.
71.34.770Release of minor—Conditional release—Discharge.
71.34.780Minor's failure to adhere to outpatient conditions—Deterioration of minor's functioning—Transport to facility or program—Order of apprehension and detention—Revocation of alternative treatment or conditional release—Hearings.
71.34.790Transportation for minors committed to state facility for one hundred eighty-day treatment.
71.34.795Transferring or moving persons from juvenile correctional institutions or facilities to evaluation and treatment facilities.
71.34.796Transfer of person committed to juvenile correction institution to institution or facility for juveniles with behavioral health disorders.
71.34.815Assisted outpatient treatment—Findings—Petition, court order for less restrictive alternative treatment—Procedure.
71.34.905Rule making—Access to files and records of court proceedings.
71.34.910Appearance by video technology.
71.34.915Authority outreach—Law and policy communication—Accessibility.
71.34.918Authority outreach—Parent portal—Report to legislature.
NOTES:
Court files and records closed—Exceptions: RCW 71.05.620.