SB 6673 - DIGEST

     Directs the department of health to perform or contract for the performance of the Washington state clinical depression in poverty study to be conducted on the Washington state temporary assistance for needy families adult recipient population.  The goal of the study is to estimate to what extent the subject population is experiencing major clinical depression as a barrier to self-sufficiency, and to examine the utility of appropriately administered and medically supervised pharmaceutical treatment for depression.

     Makes an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, from the general fund to the department of health for the purposes of this act.