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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6424

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators Talmadge, Rasmussen, Stratton, Gaspard, Bender, Warnke, Vognild, Bauer, Rinehart, Williams and Murray

Read first time 1/12/90 and referred to Committee on  Children & Family Services.

AN ACT Relating to the long-term care of children; creating a new section; making an appropriation; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     As a pilot project, the department of social and health services shall establish two facilities for the long-term care of children as an alternative to foster care for children for whom adoption is not a likely or appropriate placement.  The duration of the pilot project shall be two years, and each facility may provide care for up to sixteen children.

          The legislative budget committee shall evaluate the effectiveness of the facilities operated under the pilot project and shall submit the evaluation to appropriate committees of the legislature by December 31, 1991.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The sum of two million four hundred ten 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 the purposes of this act.  Any funds from this appropriation remaining unexpended on June 30, 1991, are hereby reappropriated to the department of social and health services for the biennium ending June 30, 1993, for the purposes of this act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.