CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2651
Chapter 137, Laws of 2018
65th Legislature
2018 Regular Session
RESIDENTIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CARE--PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 7, 2018
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2651
Passed Legislature - 2018 Regular Session
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State of Washington | 65th Legislature | 2018 Regular Session |
By House Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Stanford, Johnson, Macri, Haler, Tharinger, Goodman, Caldier, Appleton, Harris, Jinkins, Barkis, Dolan, Senn, Gregerson, Wylie, Tarleton, McBride, Doglio, Eslick, Pollet, Slatter, Fey, and Santos)
READ FIRST TIME 02/06/18.
AN ACT Relating to increasing the personal needs allowance for people in residential and institutional care settings; and amending RCW
74.09.340.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 74.09.340 and 2017 c 270 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
((Effective July 1, 2017)) (1) Except as provided in RCW 72.36.160, beginning January 1, 2019, the personal needs allowance for clients being served in medical institutions and in residential settings is seventy dollars. (2) Beginning January 1, 2020, and each ((fiscal)) year thereafter, subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the personal needs allowance shall be adjusted for economic trends and conditions by increasing the allowance by the percentage cost-of-living adjustment for old-age, survivors, and disability social security benefits as published by the federal social security administration. However, in no case shall the personal needs allowance exceed the maximum personal needs allowance permissible under the federal social security act.
Passed by the House February 12, 2018.
Passed by the Senate March 5, 2018.
Approved by the Governor March 21, 2018.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 23, 2018.
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