HB 2948 - DIGEST

     Declares that the Washington work act is created as a five-year pilot program in which residents of selected counties shall in lieu of receiving payments from the aid to families with dependent children program and coupons under the food stamp program, be provided jobs that promote self-sufficiency and encourage independence from aid to families with dependent children.

     Provides that the monthly benefit payment paid to a caretaker shall not be increased as a result of the caretaker's becoming the biological parent of any additional child or children born more than three hundred days after the day on which the caretaker first applied for assistance under this act.