CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5029

 

                   Chapter 191, Laws of 1995

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

 

 

       CHILDREN'S SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE‑-MEMBERSHIP

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/23/95

Passed by the Senate April 17, 1995

  YEAS 42   NAYS 0

 

 

 

JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 5, 1995

  YEAS 96   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5029 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

  CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved May 1, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED          

 

 

             May 1, 1995 - 11:33 a.m.

 

 

 

    MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5029

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

             Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

 

By Senators Hargrove and Fraser; by request of Department of Social and Health Services

 

Read first time 1/9/95.  Referred to Committee on Human Services and Corrections.

 

Modifying membership and duties of children's services advisory committee.



    AN ACT Relating to the children's services advisory committee; and amending RCW 74.13.031.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 74.13.031 and 1990 c 146 s 9 are each amended to read as follows:

    The department shall have the duty to provide child welfare services as defined in RCW 74.13.020, and shall:

    (1) Develop, administer, supervise, and monitor a coordinated and comprehensive plan that establishes, aids, and strengthens services for the protection and care of homeless, runaway, dependent, or neglected children.

    (2) Develop a recruiting plan for recruiting an adequate number of prospective adoptive and foster homes, both regular and specialized, i.e. homes for children of ethnic minority, including Indian homes for Indian children, sibling groups, handicapped and emotionally disturbed, and annually submit the plan for review to the house and senate committees on social and health services.  The plan shall include a section entitled "Foster Home Turn-Over, Causes and Recommendations."

    (3) Investigate complaints of neglect, abuse, or abandonment of children, and on the basis of the findings of such investigation, offer child welfare services in relation to the problem to such parents, legal custodians, or persons serving in loco parentis, and/or bring the situation to the attention of an appropriate court, or another community agency:  PROVIDED, That an investigation is not required of nonaccidental injuries which are clearly not the result of a lack of care or supervision by the child's parents, legal custodians, or persons serving in loco parentis.  If the investigation reveals that a crime may have been committed, the department shall notify the appropriate law enforcement agency.

    (4) Offer, on a voluntary basis, family reconciliation services to families who are in conflict.

    (5) Monitor out-of-home placements, on a timely and routine basis, to assure the safety, well-being, and quality of care being provided is within the scope of the intent of the legislature as defined in RCW 74.13.010 and 74.15.010, and annually submit a report delineating the results to the house and senate committees on social and health services.

    (6) Have authority to accept custody of children from parents and to accept custody of children from juvenile courts, where authorized to do so under law, to provide child welfare services including placement for adoption, and to provide for the physical care of such children and make payment of maintenance costs if needed.  Except where required by Public Law 95-608 (25 U.S.C. Sec. 1915), no private adoption agency which receives children for adoption from the department shall discriminate on the basis of race, creed, or color when considering applications in their placement for adoption.

    (7) Have authority to provide temporary shelter to children who have run away from home and who are admitted to crisis residential centers.

    (8) Have authority to purchase care for children; and shall follow in general the policy of using properly approved private agency services for the actual care and supervision of such children insofar as they are available, paying for care of such children as are accepted by the department as eligible for support at reasonable rates established by the department.

    (9) Establish a children's services advisory committee which shall assist the secretary in the development of a partnership plan for utilizing resources of the public and private sectors, and advise on all matters pertaining to child welfare, ((day care,)) licensing of child care agencies, adoption, and services related thereto.  At ((least one-third of the membership shall be composed of child care providers, and at)) least one member shall represent the adoption community.

    (10) Have authority to provide continued foster care or group care for individuals from eighteen through twenty years of age to enable them to complete their high school or vocational school program.

    (11) Have authority within funds appropriated for foster care services to purchase care for Indian children who are in the custody of a federally recognized Indian tribe or tribally licensed child-placing agency pursuant to parental consent, tribal court order, or state juvenile court order; and the purchase of such care shall be subject to the same eligibility standards and rates of support applicable to other children for whom the department purchases care.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of RCW 13.32A.170 through 13.32A.200 and 74.13.032 through 74.13.036, or of this section all services to be provided by the department of social and health services under subsections (4), (6), and (7) of this section, subject to the limitations of these subsections, may be provided by any program offering such services funded pursuant to Titles II and III of the federal juvenile justice and delinquency prevention act of 1974.


    Passed the Senate April 17, 1995.

    Passed the House April 5, 1995.

Approved by the Governor May 1, 1995.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 1, 1995.