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                         SENATE BILL 5163

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senators Brown, Kohl‑Welles, Patterson, Wojahn and Eide

Read first time 01/15/1999.  Referred to Committee on Labor & Workforce Development.

Modifying good cause reasons for failure to participate in WorkFirst program components.

    AN ACT Relating to the WorkFirst program; and amending RCW 74.08A.270.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 74.08A.270 and 1997 c 58 s 314 are each amended to read as follows:

    Good cause reasons for failure to participate in WorkFirst program components include:  (1) Situations where the recipient is a parent or other relative personally providing care for a child under the age of six years, and formal or informal 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 fails to provide such care; or (2) ((until June 30, 1999,)) if the recipient is a parent with a child under the age of one year.  A parent may only receive this exemption for a total of twelve months, which may be consecutive or nonconsecutive((; or (3) after June 30, 1999, if the recipient is a parent with a child under three months of age)).

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