FINAL BILL REPORT

                 SHB 2070

                         C 466 L 93

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Modifying financial responsibility for juvenile offenders.

By House Committee on Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Patterson, Leonard, Brough, Shin and Karahalios).

House Committee on Human Services

House Committee on Appropriations

Background:  Parents of juvenile offenders committed to the Department of Social and Health Services are not financially responsible for the care and treatment of their children.

Summary:  Parents of juvenile offenders committed to the Department of Social and Health Services are financially responsible for their children and will pay for their children's care based on their ability to pay.  Parents who receive, or are eligible to receive, adoption support payments are not required to contribute to the cost of housing and serving their adopted child.

Votes on Final Passage:

House  93 2

Senate 31 14 (Senate amended)

House  95 2 (House concurred)

Effective:  July 25, 1993