BILL REQ. #:  S-0074.2 

Read first time 01/19/2005.   Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

     AN ACT Relating to signature upon penalty of perjury on license applications for agencies providing care for children, expectant mothers, and persons with developmental disabilities; and amending RCW 74.15.100.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 74.15.100 and 1995 c 302 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:
     Each agency shall make application for a license or renewal of license to the department of social and health services on forms prescribed by the department and shall complete, sign, and swear to the contents of the application under penalty of perjury. A licensed agency having foster-family homes under its supervision may make application for a license on behalf of any such foster-family home. Such a foster home license shall cease to be valid when the home is no longer under the supervision of that agency. Upon receipt of such application, the department shall either grant or deny a license within ninety days unless the application is for licensure as a foster-family home, in which case RCW 74.15.040 shall govern. A license shall be granted if the agency meets the minimum requirements set forth in chapter 74.15 RCW and RCW 74.13.031 and the departmental requirements consistent herewith, except that an initial license may be issued as provided in RCW 74.15.120. Licenses provided for in chapter 74.15 RCW and RCW 74.13.031 shall be issued for a period of three years. The licensee, however, shall advise the secretary of any material change in circumstances which might constitute grounds for reclassification of license as to category. The license issued under this chapter is not transferable and applies only to the licensee and the location stated in the application. For licensed foster-family and family day-care homes having an acceptable history of child care, the license may remain in effect for two weeks after a move, except that for the foster-family home this will apply only if the family remains intact.