CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6024



61st Legislature
2009 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 10, 2009
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0


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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 7, 2009
  YEAS 97   NAYS 1


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6024 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.


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Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6024
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Passed Legislature - 2009 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2009 Regular Session

By Senate Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Brandland, Hargrove, McAuliffe, Stevens, and Carrell)

READ FIRST TIME 02/25/09.   



     AN ACT Relating to applications for public assistance from persons currently ineligible to receive assistance; amending RCW 74.08.060; and providing an effective date.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 74.08.060 and 1985 c 335 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     The department shall ((be required to)) approve or deny the application within forty-five days after ((the)) filing ((thereof)), and shall immediately notify the applicant in writing of its decision((: PROVIDED, That)). If the department is not able within forty-five days, despite due diligence, to secure all information necessary to establish ((his)) eligibility, the department ((is charged to)) shall continue to secure such information ((and)). If such information, when established, makes the applicant eligible, the department shall pay ((his)) the grant from the date of authorization or forty-five days after the date of application, whichever is ((sooner.
     Any person currently ineligible, who will become eligible after the occurrence of a specific event, may apply for assistance within forty- five days of that event)) earlier, except that the department shall not make payments for any period of time in which the applicant is ineligible for public assistance as an inmate of a public institution under RCW 74.08.025(1)(c).
     The department ((is authorized)) may, in respect to work requirements, ((to)) provide employment and training services, including job search, job placement, work orientation, and necessary support services to verify eligibility.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act takes effect November 1, 2009.

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