CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

               SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1432

 

 

                   Chapter 131, Laws of 1997

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

 

 

ADOPTION SUPPORT RECONSIDERATION PROGRAM--ELIGIBILITY--REVIEW OF MEDICAL NEEDS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the House March 14, 1997

  Yeas 94   Nays 0

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 10, 1997

  Yeas 44   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 SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1432  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved April 22, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.    

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 22, 1997 - 4:11 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                 SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1432

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Cooke, Tokuda, Kastama and Dickerson; by request of Department of Social and Health Services)

 

Read first time 03/10/97.

 Modifying the adoption support reconsideration program.   


    AN ACT Relating to modification of the adoption support reconsideration program; and amending RCW 74.13.150.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 74.13.150 and 1990 c 285 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The department of social and health services shall establish, within funds appropriated for the purpose, a reconsideration program to provide medical and counseling services through the adoption support program for children of families who apply for services after the adoption is final.  Families requesting services through the program shall provide any information requested by the department for the purpose of processing the family's application for services.

    (2) A child meeting the eligibility criteria for registration with the program is one who:

    (a) Was residing in a preadoptive placement funded by the department or in foster care funded by the department immediately prior to the adoptive placement;

    (b) Had a physical or mental handicap or emotional disturbance that existed and was documented prior to the adoption or was at high risk of future physical or mental handicap or emotional disturbance as a result of conditions exposed to prior to the adoption; and

    (c) Resides in the state of Washington with an adoptive parent who lacks the necessary financial means to care for the child's special need.

    (3) If a family is accepted for registration and meets the criteria in subsection (2) of this section, the department may enter into an agreement for services.  Prior to entering into an agreement for services through the program, the medical needs of the child must be reviewed and approved by the department(('s office of personal health services)).

    (4) Any services provided pursuant to an agreement between a family and the department shall be met from the department's medical program.  Such services shall be limited to:

    (a) Services provided after finalization of an agreement between a family and the department pursuant to this section;

    (b) Services not covered by the family's insurance or other available assistance; and

    (c) Services related to the eligible child's identified physical or mental handicap or emotional disturbance that existed prior to the adoption.

    (5) Any payment by the department for services provided pursuant to an agreement shall be made directly to the physician or provider of services according to the department's established procedures.

    (6) The total costs payable by the department for services provided pursuant to an agreement shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars per child.


    Passed the House March 14, 1997.

    Passed the Senate April 10, 1997.

Approved by the Governor April 22, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 1997.