CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1035

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 18, 1995   Yeas 89   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 1995   Yeas 46   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1035 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1035

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By House Committee on Children & Family Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Thibaudeau, Morris, Scott, Tokuda, Costa, Mason, Brown, Ogden, Basich, Wolfe, Patterson and Chopp)

Read first time 02/28/95.

Establishing notification and referral procedures for deaths occurring in children's residential facilities and in facilities serving developmentally disabled persons.

    AN ACT Relating to death investigations in residential facilities operated or under control of the department of social and health services; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  (1) The department of health, in conjunction with the department of social and health services, local health jurisdictions, coroners, medical examiners, and other appropriate entities, shall develop a consistent process for review of all unexpected deaths of minors who are in the care of or receiving those services described in chapter 74.13 RCW from the department of social and health services.  For purposes of this section an "unexpected death of a minor" is a death not resulting from a diagnosed terminal illness or other debilitating or deteriorating illness or condition where death is anticipated.

    (2) The department of health shall report its findings and recommendations to the legislature by November 1, 1995.

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