CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2495

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 8, 1996   Yeas 96   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 28, 1996   Yeas 47   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 HOUSE BILL 2495 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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                                  HOUSE BILL 2495

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                     Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

By Representatives Brumsickle and Cole; by request of Department of Social and Health Services

Read first time 01/11/96.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Revising educational program for juveniles in detention facilities.

     AN ACT Relating to educational program for juveniles in detention facilities; and amending RCW 28A.190.010.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 28A.190.010 and 1990 c 33 s 170 are each amended to read as follows:

     A program of education shall be provided for by the department of social and health services and the several school districts of the state for common school age persons who have been admitted to facilities staffed and maintained or contracted pursuant to RCW 13.40.320 by the department of social and health services for the education and treatment of juveniles who have been diverted or who have been found to have committed a juvenile offense.  The division of duties, authority, and liabilities of the department of social and health services and the several school districts of the state respecting the educational programs shall be the same in all respects as set forth in RCW 28A.190.030 through 28A.190.060 respecting programs of education for state residential school residents.  For the purposes of this section, the term "residential school" or "schools" as used in RCW 28A.190.030 through 28A.190.060 shall be construed to mean a facility staffed and maintained by the department of social and health services or a program established under RCW 13.40.320, for the education and treatment of juvenile offenders on probation or parole.  Nothing in this section shall prohibit a school district from utilizing the services of an educational service district subject to RCW 28A.310.180.

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