HB 1601 - DIGEST

(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB)

     Authorizes the court to consider any past or current individualized education program of a juvenile, if such program is available and applicable, prior to issuing a disposition order under chapter 13.40 RCW.  The court shall inquire whether a juvenile has or had an existing individualized education program.  When the court receives information that the juvenile has had at any time an individualized education program, the court may obtain the individualized education program from the juvenile, a parent, legal guardian, guardian and litem, or the appropriate school district.  The court may issue an order for the individualized education program from the appropriate school district if the school district does not voluntarily provide it under RCW 28A.600.475.

     Requires the court to continue to supervise a juvenile who is under court supervision for any reason or who has been released from a detention facility under RCW 13.04.145(2), and is at least eleven years old, but has not achieved a sixth grade reading level; the court shall continue that supervision until the juvenile reads at a sixth grade level or is no longer a juvenile.