H-2340 _______________________________________________
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 812
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State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By House Committee on Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Leonard, Lewis, Scott, Brekke, Moyer, Winsley, Padden, Brooks, J. Williams, S. Wilson, Wang, Nutley, Jesernig, Cole, Ebersole, Armstrong, Lux, Jacobsen, Cooper, Bumgarner, R. King, Cantwell, Valle, May, P. King, Wineberry, Rasmussen, Rayburn, Todd and Miller)
Read first time 3/6/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.
AN ACT Relating to child abuse and neglect; creating new sections; making an appropriation; and providing for an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that national data base clearinghouses which provide data that aids in the prevention of child abuse and neglect do not reflect local resources and that turnaround times for requests from national data base clearinghouses has proven excessively cumbersome.
It is the intent of the legislature to have a feasibility study conducted on the creation of a state-wide data base clearinghouse.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. (1) The Washington council for the prevention of child abuse and neglect shall instigate a feasibility study on the creation of a state-wide data base clearinghouse. The clearinghouse shall reflect state resources, be available to all subscribers state-wide and include at least the following information on child abuse and neglect:
(a) Current state and local preventative programs;
(b) Promising future programs and concepts in prevention;
(c) Research and its results in prevention;
(d) Resources available on the state and local level;
(e) Instrument availability;
(f) Audio visual information and availability; and
(g) State law and tribal codes on child abuse and neglect.
(2) The council shall commence the study on the effective date of this section and report its findings to the legislature no later than January 1, 1988. The report shall include:
(a) Alternative designs for a data base clearinghouse;
(b) Costs related to both start-up and maintenance of a clearinghouse;
(c) Potential housing sites for the clearinghouse and placements for terminal links; and
(d) Funding sources for the clearinghouse.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. There is appropriated from the general fund to the Washington council for the prevention of child abuse for the biennium ending June 30, 1989, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of this act.