HB 2088 - DIGEST
(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB)

Creates a pilot program to establish a foster youth community coordinator in three regional office locations within the state.

Requires that the department establish an individual development account for each child who has been in an out-of-home placement under chapter 13.34 RCW for a period of six or more months.

Declares that the department deposit not less than three hundred dollars to the individual development account of each child who was in an out-of-home placement for six or more months during the previous fiscal year by July 1, 2007.

Directs the department to continue making annual contributions of not less than one hundred dollars to be deposited at the beginning of each fiscal year to the individual development accounts of children for whom an account was established in this act.

Provides that youth under the age of twenty-one years may enter into a voluntary placement agreement with the department to return to foster care for a period of up to six months following the youth's eighteenth birthday.