FINAL BILL REPORT

                            SB 5349

                          C 211 L 93

                      SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

Brief Description:  Renaming educational clinics.

SPONSORS: Senators Pelz and Moyer

SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

BACKGROUND:

An educational clinic is a profit or nonprofit private school that teaches basic academic skills, as well as student achievement motivation and employment orientation.  Educational clinics diagnose individual educational abilities, determine individual goals and courses of instruction, and evaluate each client's progress.

Educational clinics are certified by the State Board of Education and reimbursed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for common school dropouts that meet specified criteria.

The present name "educational clinic" reportedly has caused some confusion with medical clinics and school programs offering various medical services.

SUMMARY:

The term "educational clinic" is changed to "education center."

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

Senate    49   0

House     96   2    (House amended)

Senate    40   0    (Senate concurred)

EFFECTIVE:July 25, 1993