CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 2768

57th Legislature

2002 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 9, 2002

Yeas 94 Nays 0

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate March 4, 2002

Yeas 44 Nays 3

CERTIFICATE

I, Cynthia Zehnder, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2768 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk

President of the Senate

Approved

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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HOUSE BILL 2768

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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington 57th Legislature 2002 Regular Session

By Representatives Orcutt, Kagi, Tokuda, Boldt, Jarrett, Benson, Nixon, Lisk, Darneille, Mulliken, Chase, Mielke, Morell, Edwards and Woods

Read first time 01/28/2002. Referred to Committee on Children & Family Services.

AN ACT Relating to reports to the legislature by the department of social and health services; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The department of social and health services shall review all legislatively imposed requirements for the department to submit reports to the legislature and recommend the continuance or elimination of the required reports. The department shall develop criteria to assess the required reports. The criteria shall include, but are not limited to, the cost of preparation and the relevance to departmental needs for management information. The department shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of the legislature on the criteria, the review process, and the recommendations by December 1, 2002.

(2) This section expires December 31, 2002.