SENATE BILL REPORT

                   HB 2558

              As Reported By Senate Committee On:

        Human Services & Corrections, February 18, 1998

Title:  An act relating to technical corrections to statutory references.

Brief Description:  Correcting statutory references.

Sponsors:  Representatives Tokuda and Cooke; by request of Department of Social and Health Services.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Human Services & Corrections:  2/18/98 [DPA].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & CORRECTIONS

Majority Report:  Do pass as amended.

  Signed by Senators Long, Chair; Zarelli, Vice Chair; Franklin, Hargrove, Kohl and Schow.

Staff:  Joan K. Mell (786-7447)

Background:  An incorrect internal reference to the definition of a dependent child is found two places in the Revised Code of Washington.

Summary of Amended Bill:  The two incorrect internal references to the definition of a dependent child are corrected.

Amended Bill Compared to Original Bill:  The cross-reference language is clarified.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  This is an appropriate technical change.  

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Jennifer Strus, DSHS (pro).