BILL REQ. #:  S-2706.1 

Read first time 04/16/09.   Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

     AN ACT Relating to residential habilitation centers; and amending RCW 71A.20.020.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 71A.20.020 and 1994 c 215 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     ((The following residential habilitation centers are permanently established to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities: Lakeland Village, located at Medical Lake, Spokane county; Rainier School, located at Buckley, Pierce county; Yakima Valley School, located at Selah, Yakima county; Fircrest School, located at Seattle, King county; and Frances Haddon Morgan Children's Center, located at Bremerton, Kitsap county.)) The department is authorized to provide residential and habilitation services through state residential habilitation centers to persons with developmental disabilities who are found eligible and in need of the level of care provided by a nursing facility or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, as those terms are described by federal law.