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SENATE BILL 5035
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senators Rasmussen, Madsen and Nelson.
Read first time January 16, 1991. Referred to Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care.
AN ACT Relating to a skilled nursing care center for veterans; adding a new section to chapter 43.60A RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that there is a dramatic increase in the number of senior veterans among the total Washington population, and that eastern Washington veterans are underserved because there is no state long-term care facility available.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 43.60A RCW to read as follows:
The department of veterans affairs shall complete planning and design work for a skilled nursing care center for veterans in time for the project to be submitted for federal veterans affairs matching funds in August 1992. The facility shall be constructed at a site in eastern Washington and shall contain between one hundred twenty and one hundred eighty skilled nursing care beds. The department of veterans affairs shall operate the facility providing a service level no less than that provided at the state veterans' home and the state soldiers' home.