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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2049

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Representatives Bowman, Rector, Brumsickle, Fraser, D. Sommers, Patrick, Wood, Doty, Wolfe, Silver, Holland and Brekke

Read first time 2/17/89 and referred to Committee on Appropriations.

AN ACT Relating to the continuum of care pilot project; amending section 4, chapter 503, Laws of 1987 (uncodified); making an appropriation; and providing an effective date.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 4, chapter 503, Laws of 1987 (uncodified) is amended to read as follows:

          (1) The pilot project shall commence on January 1, 1988, and shall terminate ((December 31, 1989)) June 30, 1991.  The department of social and health services shall provide a detailed implementation plan to the legislature by October 15, 1987.

          (2) The department's implementation plan shall include alternative management models for the pilot project providing for administration of the pilot projects by (a) the local administrator for the courts, (b) the department, (c) a  community-based organization, or (d) any combination of these entities.

          (3) The implementation plan shall also include a community participation component which describes all contracts and agreements with local agencies and professionals, including the name of the consulting community advisory group required in accordance with section 2(2) of this act.

          (4) The implementation plan shall also include criteria and methodology for collecting data necessary for the evaluation in accordance with section 5 of this act.

          (5) For purposes of providing services for the pilot projects, the department is authorized to combine funding categories in order to provide for efficient case management to meet the actual needs of children and families.

          (6) The department's implementation plan shall also include a proposal for a mechanism establishing a decision-making process when services needed by children and families extend beyond those services available from the division of children and family services.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The sum of one million eight hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1991, from the general fund to the department of social and health services for funding of the continuum of care pilot project established by sections 1 through 4, chapter 503, Laws of 1987.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     Section 2 of this act shall take effect January 1, 1990.