BILL REQ. #: S-0097.1
| State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2013 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/22/13. Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.
AN ACT Relating to child protective services workers; and adding a new section to chapter 26.44 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 26.44 RCW
to read as follows:
Any child protective services worker who is directly engaged in:
(1) Investigation of reports of alleged child abuse or neglect; (2)
assessment of risk of abuse or neglect to children; or (3) provision of
or referral to services, including law enforcement, to remedy
conditions that endanger the health, safety, and welfare of children,
must be licensed in good standing in a social work classification under
chapter 18.225 RCW, and bonded.