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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5048

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Children & Family Services (originally sponsored by Senators Lee, Wojahn, McCaslin, Saling, Rasmussen, Talmadge, Sutherland, von Reichbauer and Nelson; by request of Legislative Budget Committee)

Read first time 2/2/89.

AN ACT Relating to prevention of child abuse and neglect; and amending RCW 36.18.010, 43.131.319, 43.131.320, 43.121.010, and 43.121.020; and making an appropriation.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 36.18.010, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 as last amended by section 1, chapter 230, Laws of 1987 and RCW 36.18.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          County auditors shall collect the following fees for their official services:

          For recording instruments, for the first page, legal size (eight and one-half by thirteen inches or less), five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

          For preparing and certifying copies, for the first legal size page, three dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

          For preparing noncertified copies, for each legal size page, one dollar;

          For administering an oath or taking an affidavit, with or without seal, two dollars;

          For issuing a marriage license, eight dollars, (this fee includes taking necessary affidavits, filing returns, indexing, and transmittal of a record of the marriage to the state registrar of vital statistics) plus an additional five-dollar fee for use and support of the prevention of child abuse and neglect activities to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund, which five-dollar fee shall expire June 30, ((1988)) 1995, plus an additional ten-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund.  The legislature intends to appropriate an amount at least equal to the revenue generated by this fee for the purposes of the displaced homemaker act, chapter 28B.04 RCW;

          For searching records per hour, eight dollars;

          For recording plats, fifty cents for each lot except cemetery plats for which the charge shall be twenty-five cents per lot; also one dollar for each acknowledgment, dedication, and description:  PROVIDED, That there shall be a minimum fee of twenty-five dollars per plat;

          For recording of miscellaneous records, not listed above, for first legal size page, five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar.

        Sec. 2.  Section 5, chapter 261, Laws of 1984 as amended by section 7, chapter 270, Laws of 1986 and RCW 43.131.319 are each amended to read as follows:

          The Washington council for the prevention of child abuse and neglect and its powers and duties shall be terminated on June 30, ((1989)) 1994, as provided in RCW 43.131.320.

        Sec. 3.  Section 6, chapter 261, Laws of 1984 as amended by section 8, chapter 270, Laws of 1986 and RCW 43.131.320 are each amended to read as follows:

          The following acts or parts of acts as now existing or hereafter amended, are each repealed effective June 30, ((1990)) 1995:

          (1) Section 1, chapter 4, Laws of 1982 and RCW 43.121.010;

          (2) Section 2, chapter 351, Laws of 1987, section 4, chapter 278, Laws of 1988 and RCW 43.121.015;

(3) Section 2, chapter 4, Laws of 1982, section 1, chapter 261, Laws of 1984, section 3, chapter 351, Laws of 1987 and RCW 43.121.020;

          (((3))) (4) Section 3, chapter 4, Laws of 1982, section 87, chapter 287, Laws of 1984 and RCW 43.121.030;

          (((4))) (5) Section 4, chapter 4, Laws of 1982 and RCW 43.121.040;

          (((5))) (6) Section 5, chapter 4, Laws of 1982, section 4, chapter 351, Laws of 1987, section 5, chapter 278, Laws of 1988 and RCW 43.121.050;

          (((6))) (7) Section 6, chapter 4, Laws of 1982 and RCW 43.121.060;

          (((7))) (8) Section 7, chapter 4, Laws of 1982 and RCW 43.121.070;

          (((8))) (9) Section 8, chapter 4, Laws of 1982  and RCW 43.121.080;

          (((9))) (10) Section 9, chapter 4, Laws of 1982, section 2, chapter 261, Laws of 1984, section 38, chapter 505, Laws of 1987 and RCW 43.121.090;

          (((10))) (11) Section 10, chapter 4, Laws of 1982, section 3, chapter 261, Laws of 1984, section 5, chapter 351, Laws of 1987 and RCW 43.121.100; ((and

          (11))) (12) Section 1, chapter 278, Laws of 1988 and RCW 43.121.110;

(13) Section 2, chapter 278, Laws of 1988 and RCW 43.121.120;

(14) Section 3, chapter 278, Laws of 1988 and RCW 43.121.130; and

(15) Section 15, chapter 4, Laws of 1982 and RCW 43.121.910.

        Sec. 4.  Section 1, chapter 4, Laws of 1982 and RCW 43.121.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          The legislature recognizes that child abuse and neglect is a threat to the family unit and imposes major expenses on society.  The legislature further declares that there is a need to assist private and public agencies in identifying and establishing community based educational and service programs for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.  The amount of these grants shall be consistent with the overall intent of serving the largest number of clients in need of child abuse prevention activities.  It is the intent of the legislature that an increase in prevention programs will help reduce the breakdown in families and thus reduce the need for state intervention and state expense.  It is further the intent of the legislature that prevention of child abuse and child neglect programs are partnerships between communities, citizens, and the state.

        Sec. 5.  Section 2, chapter 4, Laws of 1982 as last amended by section 3, chapter 351, Laws of 1987 and RCW 43.121.020 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) There is established in the executive office of the governor a Washington council for the prevention of child abuse and neglect subject to the jurisdiction of the governor.

          (2) The council shall be composed of the chairperson and ((ten)) twelve other members as follows:

          (a) The chairperson and ((four)) six other members shall be appointed by the governor and shall be selected for their interest and expertise in the prevention of child abuse.  A minimum of four designees by the governor shall not be affiliated with governmental agencies.  ((A minimum of two of the designees shall reside east of the Cascade mountain range)) The appointments shall be made on a geographic basis to assure council membership representing all areas of the state.  Members appointed by the governor shall serve for two-year terms, except that the chairperson and two other members designated by the governor shall initially serve for three years.  Vacancies shall be filled for any unexpired term by appointment in the same manner as the original appointments were made.

          (b) The secretary of social and health services or the secretary's designee and the superintendent of public instruction or the superintendent's designee shall serve as voting members of the council.

          (c) In addition to the members of the council, four members of the legislature shall serve as nonvoting, ex officio members of the council, one from each political caucus of the house of representatives to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and one from each political caucus of the senate to be appointed by the president of the senate.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 6.     The sum of thirty-seven thousand dollars, or so 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 the purpose of providing additional staff support to the Washington council for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.