SENATE BILL REPORT

                  SSB 6195

              As Passed Senate, February 12, 1998

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

Brief Description:  Correcting statutory references.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Long and Hargrove; by request of Department of Social and Health Services).

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Human Services & Corrections:  1/14/98, 1/27/98 [DPS].

Passed Senate, 2/12/98, 47-0.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & CORRECTIONS

Majority Report:  That Substitute Senate Bill No. 6195 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

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

Staff:  Joan Mell (786-7447)

Background:  The Department of Social and Health Services requests technical amendments to RCW 13.34.090 (dependency statutes) and RCW 43.43.700 (Washington State Patrol Identification Unit).  The statutes as presently written cross reference the incorrect subsection definitions. 

Summary of Bill:  RCW 13.34.090(2) is amended to cross reference the dependency definition, from subsection (2) to (4). 

RCW 43.43.700 is amended to cross reference the appropriate dependency subsection, from (2b) to (4b).

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

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

Testimony For:  The erroneous cross reference needs to be corrected.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Jennifer Strus, DSHS (pro).