2798-S2.E AMS WM S5775.1
E2SHB 2798 - S COMM AMD
By Committee on Ways & Means
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
"NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that lengthy stays on welfare, lack of access to vocational education and training, the inadequate emphasis on employment by the social welfare system, and teen pregnancy are obstacles to achieving economic independence. Therefore, the legislature intends that:
(1) Income and employment assistance programs emphasize the temporary nature of welfare and set goals of responsibility, work, and independence;
(2) State institutions take an active role in preventing pregnancy in young teens;
(3) Family planning assistance be readily available to welfare recipients;
(4) Support enforcement be more effective and the level of responsibility of noncustodial parents be significantly increased; and
(5) Employment assistance resources focus on recipients so as to reduce the likelihood of long-term stays on welfare and target most likely to benefit from such resources.
PART I. EMPHASIZING WORK AND FAMILY PLANNING IN PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 74.12 RCW to read as follows:
The department shall train financial services and social work staff who provide direct service to recipients of aid to families with dependent children to:
(1) Effectively communicate the transitional nature of aid to families with dependent children and the expectation that recipients will enter employment;
(2) Actively refer clients to the job opportunities and basic skills program;
(3) Provide social services needed to overcome obstacles to employability; and
(4) Provide family planning information and assistance, including alternatives to abortion, which shall be conducted in consultation with the department of health.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter 74.12 RCW to read as follows:
At time of application or reassessment under this chapter the department shall offer or contract for family planning information and assistance, including alternatives to abortion, and any other available locally based teen pregnancy prevention programs, to prospective and current recipients of aid to families with dependent children.
PART II. TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. For the 1994-95 school year, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall administer a program that provides grants to school districts for media campaigns promoting sexual abstinence and addressing the importance of delaying sexual activity, pregnancy, and childbearing until individuals are ready to nurture and support their children. The messages shall be distributed in the school and community where produced. Grants to the school districts shall be for projects that are substantially designed and produced by students. The grants shall require a local private sector match equal to the state grant, which may include in-kind contribution of technical or other assistance from consultants or firms involved in public relations, advertising, broadcasting, and graphics or video production or other related fields. For purposes of evaluating the impact of the campaigns, applicants shall estimate student pregnancy and birth rates over the prior three to five years.
PART III. REFOCUSING JOBS
Sec. 5. RCW 74.25.010 and 1991 c 126 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
The legislature establishes as state policy
the goal of economic self-sufficiency for employable recipients of public
assistance, through employment, training, and education. In furtherance of
this policy, the legislature intends to comply with the requirements of the
federal social security act, as amended, by creating a job opportunities and
basic skills training program for applicants and recipients of aid to families
with dependent children. The purpose of this program is to provide recipients
of aid to families with dependent children the opportunity to obtain ((a
full range of necessary)) appropriate education, training, skills,
and supportive services, including child care, consistent with their needs,
that will help them enter or reenter gainful employment, thereby avoiding
long-term welfare dependence and achieving economic self-sufficiency. The
program shall be operated by the department of social and health services in conformance
with federal law and consistent with the following legislative findings:
(1) The legislature finds that the well-being of children depends not only on meeting their material needs, but also on the ability of parents to become economically self-sufficient. The job opportunities and basic skills training program is specifically directed at increasing the labor force participation and household earnings of aid to families with dependent children recipients, through the removal of barriers preventing them from achieving self-sufficiency. These barriers include, but are not limited to, the lack of recent work experience, supportive services such as affordable and reliable child care, adequate transportation, appropriate counseling, and necessary job-related tools, equipment, books, clothing, and supplies, the absence of basic literacy skills, the lack of educational attainment sufficient to meet labor market demands for career employees, and the nonavailability of useful labor market assessments.
(2) The legislature also recognizes that aid to families with dependent children recipients must be acknowledged as active participants in self-sufficiency planning under the program. The legislature finds that the department of social and health services should communicate concepts of the importance of work and how performance and effort directly affect future career and educational opportunities and economic well-being, as well as personal empowerment, self-motivation, and self-esteem to program participants. The legislature further recognizes that informed choice is consistent with individual responsibility, and that parents should be given a range of options for available child care while participating in the program.
(3) The legislature finds that current work experience is one of the most important factors influencing an individual's ability to work toward financial stability and an adequate standard of living in the long term, and that work experience should be the most important component of the program.
(4) The legislature finds that education, including, but not limited to, literacy, high school equivalency, vocational, secondary, and postsecondary, is one of the most important tools an individual needs to achieve full independence, and that this should be an important component of the program.
(((4))) (5) The legislature
further finds that the objectives of this program are to assure that aid to
families with dependent children recipients gain experience in the labor
force and thereby enhance their long-term ability to achieve financial
stability and an adequate standard of living at wages that will meet family
needs.
Sec. 6. RCW 74.25.020 and 1993 c 312 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The department of social and health services is authorized to contract with public and private employment and training agencies and other public service entities to provide services prescribed or allowed under the federal social security act, as amended, to carry out the purposes of the jobs training program. In contracting for job placement, job search, and other job opportunities and basic skills services, the department is encouraged to structure payments to the contractor on a performance basis. The department of social and health services has sole authority and responsibility to carry out the job opportunities and basic skills training program. No contracting entity shall have the authority to review, change, or disapprove any administrative decision, or otherwise substitute its judgment for that of the department of social and health services as to the application of policies and rules adopted by the department of social and health services. The department shall maximize the federal matching funds available for the job opportunities and basic skills program by aggressively seeking private and public funds as match for federal funds.
(2) The department shall collect information from all adult recipients of aid to families with dependent children on years of education and recent work experience. This information, along with age and number of months of assistance receipt, shall be used to target and prioritize job opportunities and basic skills services.
(3) To the
extent feasible under federal law, the department of social and health services
and all entities contracting with it shall ((give first priority of service
to individuals volunteering for program participation)) place nonexempt
adult recipients of aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) into the
following four target categories:
(a) Recipients with high education and low-work experience;
(b) Recipients with high education and high-work experience;
(c) Recipients with low education and high-work experience; and
(d) Recipients with low education and low-work experience.
(4) As used in subsection (3) of this section, "low education" means having only a general equivalency diploma or lacking a high school diploma. "Low-work experience" means working five hundred or fewer hours annually.
(5) Aid to families with dependent children recipients under age twenty who have not completed high school will be required to do so and are excluded from the target categories defined in subsection (3) of this section.
(6) To the maximum extent permitted under state and federal law, the department and all entities contracting with the department shall prioritize existing job search, job training, and education resources in the manner provided in this subsection. All recipients in the target categories in subsection (3) (a), (b), and (c) of this section shall receive immediate mandatory job search assistance prior to any individualized assessment. To the extent that such assistance does not result in employment for a period of at least six months, additional job search assistance and training shall be provided as necessary for the recipient to become self-sufficient and as indicated by an individualized assessment and employability plan. The assessments and employability plan shall identify and primarily respond to a participant's job readiness. The job opportunities and basic skills training program components specified by the employability plan shall place a high priority on participants gaining work experience and participants under subsection (2) of this section will normally be expected to take any job offered unless there is good cause to refuse to accept a job. Good cause shall be found if any of the conditions described in subsection (3) of this section are met, or if accepting a job would result in a participant having to discontinue an education or job training program that is part of the participant's employability plan prior to completion of such education or job training program.
The department of social and health services shall track the experience of those recipients who accept any job offered as part of their job opportunities and basic skills program participation. In tracking such recipients, the department shall determine the wages and hours of the job taken, whether earnings resulted in ineligibility for aid to families with dependent children, whether the recipient returns to the aid to families with dependent children program, and, for recipients who do return to the aid to families with dependent children program, the wages and hours of subsequent jobs taken.
Hours of unsubsidized employment shall count towards participation requirements independent of date of hire or concurrent participation in other components of the job opportunities and basic skills program. The additional services identified through assessments and identified in the employability plan shall be provided within existing state and federal resources and in the following priority order: First, to recipients in the category in subsection (3)(a) of this section, second to recipients in the category in subsection (3)(b) of this section, and third to recipients in the category in subsection (3)(c) of this section. Recipients who have received aid to families with dependent children for thirty-six of the last sixty months shall have the highest priority for services within the categories in subsection (3) (a), (b), and (c) of this section. Recipients in the target category in subsection (3)(d) of this section shall receive job search assistance and other services to the extent that resources are available, with recipients who have received assistance grants for thirty-six of the last sixty months having the highest priority for services within this group.
(7) All job search, skills training, and postsecondary education shall be oriented towards local labor force needs as determined by the department in consultation with the local private industry council and the employment security department. Education and skills training shall emphasize basic, secondary, and vocational education. Aid to families with dependent children grants shall be provided to individuals attending a four-year college or university only if it can be demonstrated that it provides the fastest and most efficient path to employment for a particular recipient. Aid to families with dependent children recipients are prohibited from undertaking a postsecondary course of study oriented primarily towards liberal arts.
(8) Job search assistance, whether provided by the department or an entity contracting with the department, shall include job development services. The services shall be provided by persons responsible for identifying existing and potential job openings and for developing relationships with existing and potential area employers.
(((3))) (9)
The department of social and health services shall adopt rules under chapter
34.05 RCW establishing criteria constituting circumstances of good cause for an
individual failing or refusing to participate in an assigned program component,
or failing or refusing to accept or retain employment. These criteria shall
include, but not be limited to, the following circumstances: (a) If the
individual is a parent or other relative personally providing care for a child
under age ((six years, and the employment would require the individual to
work more than twenty hours per week)) three; (b) if child care, or
day care for an incapacitated individual living in the same home as a dependent
child, is necessary for an individual to participate or continue participation
in the program or accept employment, and such care is not available, and the
department of social and health services fails to provide such care; (c) the
employment would result in the family of the participant experiencing a net
loss of cash income; or (d) circumstances that are beyond the control of the
individual's household, either on a short-term or on an ongoing basis.
(((4))) (10)
The department of social and health services shall adopt rules under chapter
34.05 RCW as necessary to effectuate the intent and purpose of this chapter.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 7. A new section is added to chapter 74.25 RCW to read as follows:
Recipients of aid to families with dependent children who are not participating in an education or work training program may volunteer to work in a licensed child care facility, or other willing volunteer work site. Licensed child care facilities participating in this effort shall provide care for the recipient's children and provide for the development of positive child care skills.
PART IV. ELIGIBILITY AND BENEFIT PAYMENT REVISIONS
NEW SECTION. Sec. 8. A new section is added to chapter 74.12 RCW to read as follows:
The department shall pay to all recipients of food stamps a cash grant equal to the monthly food stamp benefit.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 9. A new section is added to chapter 74.12 RCW to read as follows:
The department shall amend the state plan to eliminate the one hundred hour work rule for recipients of aid to families with dependent children-employable.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 10. A new section is added to chapter 74.12 RCW to read as follows:
The revisions to the aid to families with dependent children program and job opportunities and basic skills training program shall be implemented by the department of social and health services on a state-wide basis.
PART V. CHILD SUPPORT
NEW SECTION. Sec. 11. The department of social and health services shall make a substantial effort to determine the identity of the noncustodial parent through consistent implementation of RCW 70.58.080. By December 1, 1994, the department of social and health services shall report to the fiscal committees of the legislature on the method for validating claims of good cause for refusing to establish paternity, the methods used in other states, and the national average rate of claims of good cause for refusing to establish paternity compared to the Washington state rate of claims of good cause for refusing to establish paternity, the reasons for differences in the rates, and steps that may be taken to reduce these differences.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 12. A new section is added to chapter 74.20A RCW to read as follows:
(1) In each case within the jurisdiction of the office of support enforcement in which a child support obligation has been established, the secretary shall issue a letter, by mail, to the parent responsible for payment of the support obligation. The letter shall notify the parent that the fact and amount of the child support obligation will be reported to consumer reporting agencies, as defined in RCW 19.182.010, operating in the state of Washington.
(2) Within thirty days following the date that a notice described in subsection (1) of this section is mailed, the secretary shall report the fact and amount of the child support obligation to consumer reporting agencies, as defined in RCW 19.182.010, operating in the state of Washington. Any modification in the amount of a child support obligation for which a report has been made under this section, shall be reported to consumer reporting agencies, as defined in RCW 19.182.010, operating in the state of Washington.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 13. A new section is added to chapter 74.20 RCW to read as follows:
(1) The office of support enforcement shall contract with private collection agencies to pursue collection of arrearages that might otherwise consume a disproportionate share of the office's collection efforts. In determining appropriate contract provisions, the department shall consult with other state support enforcement agencies which have successfully contracted with private collection agencies to the extent allowed by federal regulations.
(2) The department shall solicit proposals and shall select collection agencies that have computerized location and asset information service capabilities.
(3) The department shall monitor each case that it refers to a collection agency.
(4) The department shall evaluate the effectiveness of entering into contracts for services under this section.
(5) The department shall report to the fiscal committees of the legislature on the results of its analysis under subsections (3) and (4) of this section.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 14. A new section is added to chapter 74.20 RCW to read as follows:
The office of support enforcement shall, as a matter of policy, use all available remedies for the enforcement of support obligations where the obligor is a self-employed individual. The office of support enforcement shall not discriminate in favor of certain obligors based upon employment status.
PART VI. EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
Sec. 15. RCW 50.63.010 and 1986 c 172 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The legislature finds that the restructuring in the Washington economy has created rising public assistance caseloads and declining real wages for Washington workers. There is a profound need to develop partnership programs between the private and public sectors to create new jobs with adequate salaries and promotional opportunities for chronically unemployed and underemployed citizens of the state. Most public assistance recipients want to become financially independent through paid employment. A voluntary program which utilizes public wage subsidies and employer matching salaries has provided a beneficial financial incentive allowing public assistance recipients transition to permanent full-time employment.
Sec. 16. RCW 50.63.020 and 1986 c 172 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
The employment partnership program is created
to develop a series of geographically distributed model projects to
provide permanent full-time employment for low-income and unemployed persons.
The program shall be ((a cooperative effort between the employment security
department and)) administered by the department of social and health
services. The department shall contract for the program through local
public or private nonprofit organizations. The goals of the program are as
follows:
(1) To reduce inefficiencies in administration and provide model coordination of agencies with responsibilities for employment and human service delivery to unemployed persons;
(2) To create voluntary financial incentives
to simultaneously reduce unemployment and welfare caseloads; ((and))
(3) To provide other state and federal support services to the client population to enable economic independence;
(4) To improve partnerships between the public and private sectors designed to move recipients of public assistance into productive employment; and
(5) To provide employers with information on federal targeted jobs tax credit and other state and federal tax incentives for participation in the program.
Sec. 17. RCW 50.63.030 and 1986 c 172 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
The ((commissioner of employment security
and the)) secretary of the department of social and health services shall
establish pilot projects that enable grants to be used as a wage subsidy. The
department of social and health services ((is designated as the lead agency
for the purpose of complying)) shall comply with applicable federal
statutes and regulations((. The department)), and shall seek any
waivers from the federal government necessary to operate the employment
partnership program. The projects shall be available on an individual
case-by-case basis or subject to the limitations outlined in RCW 50.63.050 (as
recodified by this act) for the start-up or reopening of a plant under
worker ownership. The projects shall be subject to the following criteria:
(1) It shall be a voluntary program and no person may have any sanction applied for failure to participate.
(2) Employment positions established by this chapter shall not be created as the result of, nor result in, any of the following:
(a) Displacement of current employees, including overtime currently worked by these employees;
(b) The filling of positions that would otherwise be promotional opportunities for current employees;
(c) The filling of a position, before compliance with applicable personnel procedures or provisions of collective bargaining agreements;
(d) The filling of a position created by termination, layoff, or reduction in workforce;
(e) The filling of a work assignment customarily performed by a worker in a job classification within a recognized collective bargaining unit in that specific work site, or the filling of a work assignment in any bargaining unit in which funded positions are vacant or in which regular employees are on layoff;
(f) A strike, lockout, or other bona fide labor dispute, or violation of any existing collective bargaining agreement between employees and employers;
(g) Decertification of any collective bargaining unit.
(3) Wages shall be paid at the usual and customary rate of comparable jobs and may include a training wage if permitted by applicable federal statutes and regulations;
(4) A recoupment process shall recover state
supplemented wages from an employer when a job does not last six months
following the subsidization period for reasons other than the employee
voluntarily quitting or being fired for good cause as determined by the ((commissioner
of employment security)) local employment partnership council under
rules prescribed by the ((commissioner pursuant to chapter 50.20 RCW)) secretary;
(5) Job placements shall have promotional opportunities or reasonable opportunities for wage increases;
(6) Other necessary support services such as training, day care, medical insurance, and transportation shall be provided to the extent possible;
(7) Employers shall provide monetary matching funds of at least fifty percent of total wages;
(8) Wages paid to participants shall be a minimum of five dollars an hour; and
(9) The projects shall target the ((hardest-to-employ))
populations in the priority and for the purposes set forth in RCW 74.25.020,
to the extent that necessary support services are available.
Sec. 18. RCW 50.63.040 and 1986 c 172 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
An employer, before becoming eligible to fill
a position under the employment partnership program, shall certify to the ((department
of employment security)) local employment partnership council that
the employment, offer of employment, or work activity complies with the
following conditions:
(1) The conditions of work are reasonable and not in violation of applicable federal, state, or local safety and health standards;
(2) The assignments are not in any way related to political, electoral, or partisan activities;
(3) The employer shall provide industrial insurance coverage as required by Title 51 RCW;
(4) The employer shall provide unemployment compensation coverage as required by Title 50 RCW;
(5) The employment partnership program participants hired following the completion of the program shall be provided benefits equal to those provided to other employees including social security coverage, sick leave, the opportunity to join a collective bargaining unit, and medical benefits.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 19. A local employment partnership council shall be established in each pilot project area to assist the department of social and health services in the administration of this chapter and to allow local flexibility in dealing with the particular needs of each pilot project area. Each council shall be primarily responsible for recruiting and encouraging participation of employment providers in the project site. Each council shall be composed of nine members who shall be appointed by the county legislative authority of the county in which the pilot project operates. Councilmembers shall be residents of or employers in the pilot project area in which they are appointed and shall serve three-year terms. The council shall have two members who are current or former recipients of the aid to families with dependent children program or food stamp program, two members who represent labor, and five members who represent the local business community. In addition, one person representing the local community service office of the department of social and health services, one person representing a community action agency or other nonprofit service provider, and one person from a local city or county government shall serve as nonvoting members.
Sec. 20. RCW 50.63.060 and 1986 c 172 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
Participants shall be considered recipients
of aid to families with dependent children and remain eligible for medicaid
benefits even if the participant does not receive a residual grant. Work
supplementation participants shall be eligible for (1) the thirty-dollar plus
one-third of earned income exclusion from income, (2) the work related expense
disregard, and (3) ((the)) any applicable child care expense
disregard deemed available to recipient of aid in computing his or her grant
under this chapter, unless prohibited by federal law.
Sec. 21. RCW 50.63.090 and 1986 c 172 s 9 are each amended to read as follows:
The department of
social and health services shall seek any federal funds available for
implementation of this chapter, including, but not limited to, funds available
under Title IV of the federal social security act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.)
for the ((work incentive demonstration program, and the employment search
program)) job opportunities and basic skills program.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 22. RCW 50.63.010, 50.63.020, 50.63.030, 50.63.040, 50.63.050, 50.63.060, 50.63.070, 50.63.080, and 50.63.090 are each recodified as a new chapter in Title 74 RCW.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 23. The department of social and health services shall report to the appropriate committees of the house of representatives and senate on the implementation of this employment partnership program for recipients of aid to families with dependent children by October 1, 1995.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 24. Section 19 of this act shall be codified in the new chapter created by section 22 of this act.
PART VII. IMMUNIZATION
NEW SECTION. Sec. 25. A new section is added to chapter 43.70 RCW to read as follows:
(1) The department, in conjunction with local health jurisdictions, shall require each local health jurisdiction to submit an immunization assessment and enhancement proposal, consistent with the standards established in the public health improvement plan, to provide immunization protection to the children of the state to further reduce vaccine-preventable diseases.
(2) These plans shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) A description of the population groups in the jurisdiction that are in the greatest need of immunizations;
(b) A description of strategies to use outreach, volunteer, and other local educational resources to enhance immunization rates; and
(c) A description of the capacity required to accomplish the enhancement proposal.
(3) This section shall be implemented consistent with available funding.
(4) The secretary shall report through the public health improvement plan to the health care and fiscal committees of the legislature on the status of the program and progress made toward increasing immunization rates in population groups of greatest need.
PART VIII. CHILD'S RESOURCES
Sec. 26. RCW 74.12.350 and 1979 c 141 s 354 are each amended to read as follows:
The department of social and health services is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regulations in conformity with the provisions of Public Law 87-543 to allow all or any portion of a dependent child's earned or other income to be set aside for the identifiable future needs of the dependent child which will make possible the realization of the child's maximum potential as an independent and useful citizen.
The transfer into, or accumulation of, a child's income or resources in an irrevocable trust account is hereby allowed. The amount allowable is four thousand dollars. The department will provide income assistance recipients with clear and simple information on how to set up educational accounts, including how to assure that the accounts comply with federal law by being adequately earmarked for future educational use, and are irrevocable.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 27. RCW 74.12.360 and 1993 c 312 s 10 are each repealed.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 28. A new section is added to chapter 74.12 RCW to read as follows:
(1) The department shall determine, after consideration of all relevant factors, the most appropriate living situation for applicants under eighteen years of age, unmarried, and either pregnant or having a dependent child in the applicant's care. Appropriate living situations shall include a place of residence maintained by the applicant's parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative as their own home, or other appropriate supportive living arrangement supervised by an adult where feasible and consistent with federal regulations under 45 C.F.R. chapter II, section 233.107.
(2) An applicant under eighteen years of age who is either pregnant or has a dependent child and is not living in a situation described in subsection (1) of this section shall be presumed to be unable to manage adequately the funds paid on behalf of the dependent child and, unless the teenage custodial parent demonstrates otherwise, shall be subject to the protective payee requirements provided for under RCW 74.12.250 and 74.08.280.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 29. A new section is added to chapter 74.04 RCW to read as follows:
(1) The department shall determine, after consideration of all relevant factors, the most appropriate living situation for applicants under eighteen years of age, unmarried, and pregnant who are eligible for general assistance as defined in RCW 74.04.005 (6)(a)(ii)(A). Appropriate living situations shall include a place of residence maintained by the applicant's parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative as their own home, or other appropriate supportive living arrangement supervised by an adult where feasible and consistent with federal regulations under 45 C.F.R. chapter II, section 233.107.
(2) An applicant under eighteen years of age who is pregnant and is not living in a situation described in subsection (1) of this section shall be presumed to be unable to manage adequately the funds paid on behalf of the dependent child and, unless the teenage custodial parent demonstrates otherwise, shall be subject to the protective payee requirements provided for under RCW 74.12.250 and 74.08.280.
PART IX. MISCELLANEOUS
NEW SECTION. Sec. 30. A new section is added to chapter 74.12 RCW to read as follows:
The department shall actively develop mechanisms for the income assistance program, the medical assistance program, and the community services administration to facilitate the enrollment in the federal supplemental security income program of disabled persons currently part of assistance units receiving aid to families with dependent children benefits.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 31. A new section is added to chapter 74.12 RCW to read as follows:
By October 1, 1994, the department shall request the governor to seek congressional action on any federal legislation that may be necessary to implement any sections of chapter . . ., Laws of 1994 (this act). By October 1, 1994, the department shall request the governor to seek federal agency action on any federal regulation that may require a federal waiver.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 32. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 33. If any part of this act is found to be in conflict with federal requirements that are a prescribed condition to the allocation of federal funds to the state, the conflicting part of this act is inoperative solely to the extent of the conflict and with respect to the agencies directly affected, and this finding does not affect the operation of the remainder of this act in its application to the agencies concerned. The rules under this act shall meet federal requirements that are a necessary condition to the receipt of federal funds by the state.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 34. Sections 6 and 8 of this act shall take effect July 1, 1995.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 35. Part headings as used in this act constitute no part of the law."
E2SHB 2798 - S COMM AMD
By Committee on Ways & Means
On page 1, line 1 of the title, after "reform;" strike the remainder of the title and insert "amending RCW 74.25.010, 74.25.020, 50.63.010, 50.63.020, 50.63.030, 50.63.040, 50.63.060, 50.63.090, and 74.12.350; adding new sections to chapter 74.12 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 74.25 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 74.20A RCW; adding new sections to chapter 74.20 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 43.70 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 74.04 RCW; adding a new chapter to Title 74 RCW; creating new sections; recodifying RCW 50.63.010, 50.63.020, 50.63.030, 50.63.040, 50.63.050, 50.63.060, 50.63.070, 50.63.080, and 50.63.090; repealing RCW 74.12.360; and providing an effective date."
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