CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1565



60th Legislature
2007 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 23, 2007
  Yeas 94   Nays 0


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 11, 2007
  Yeas 45   Nays 0



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President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1565 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.



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Chief Clerk
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1565
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Passed Legislature - 2007 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2007 Regular Session

By House Committee on Early Learning & Children's Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Kagi, Dickerson and Kenney)

READ FIRST TIME 02/01/07.   



     AN ACT Relating to public access to child in need of services and at-risk youth hearings; and amending RCW 13.32A.200.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 13.32A.200 and 2000 c 123 s 25 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) All hearings pursuant to this chapter may be conducted at any time or place within the county of the residence of the parent and such cases shall ((not)) be heard in conjunction with the business of any other division of the superior court, except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section.
     (2) The public shall be excluded from a child in need of services hearing if the judicial officer finds that it is in the best interest of the child.
     (3) The public shall be excluded from an at-risk youth hearing if:
     (a) The judicial officer finds that it is in the best interest of the child; or
     (b) Either parent requests that the public be excluded from the hearing.
     (4) At the beginning of the at-risk youth hearing, the judicial officer shall notify the parents that either parent has the right to request that the public be excluded from the at-risk youth hearing.
     (5) If the public ((shall be)) is excluded from hearings ((and)) under subsection (2) or (3) of this act, only such persons who are found by the court to have a direct interest in the case or the work of the court shall be admitted to the proceedings.

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