CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1916
Chapter 284, Laws of 2024
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
EARLY SUPPORT FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS PROGRAM—FUNDING CRITERIA
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the House February 12, 2024 Yeas 95 Nays 0 LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 29, 2024 Yeas 46 Nays 0 DENNY HECK
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1916 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved March 26, 2024 1:17 PM | FILED March 27, 2024 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1916
Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington | 68th Legislature | 2024 Regular Session |
ByHouse Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Senn, Couture, Leavitt, Taylor, Paul, Callan, Ramos, Cortes, Reed, Fey, Timmons, Street, Doglio, Simmons, Wylie, Reeves, Alvarado, Nance, Riccelli, Fosse, Pollet, and Shavers; by request of Department of Children, Youth, and Families)
READ FIRST TIME 02/05/24.
AN ACT Relating to funding for the early support for infants and toddlers program; amending RCW
43.216.580; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
43.216.580 and 2020 c 90 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The department is the state lead agency for Part C of the federal individuals with disabilities education act. The department shall administer the early support for infants and toddlers program, to provide early intervention services to all eligible children with disabilities from birth to three years of age. Eligibility shall be determined according to Part C of the federal individuals with disabilities education act or other applicable federal and state laws, and as specified in the Washington Administrative Code adopted by the department. Services provided under this section shall not supplant services or funding currently provided in the state for early intervention services to eligible children with disabilities from birth to three years of age.
(2)(a) Funding for the early support for infants and toddlers program shall be appropriated to the department based on the annual average head count of children ages birth to three who are eligible for and receiving early intervention services, multiplied by the total statewide allocation generated by the distribution formula under RCW
28A.150.260 (4)(a), (5), (6), and (8) and the allocation under RCW
28A.150.415, per the statewide full-time equivalent enrollment in common schools, multiplied by 1.15.
(b) The department shall distribute funds to early intervention services providers, and, when appropriate, to county lead agencies.
(c) For the purposes of this subsection (2), a child is receiving early intervention services if the child has received services within ((a month prior to))the same month as the monthly count day, which is the last business day of the month.
(3) Federal funds associated with Part C of the federal individuals with disabilities education act shall be subject to payor of last resort requirements pursuant to 34 C.F.R. Sec. 303.510 (2020) for birth-to-three early intervention services provided under this section.
(4) The services in this section are not part of the state's program of basic education pursuant to Article IX of the state Constitution.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. If specific funding for the purposes of this act, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, is not provided by June 30, 2024, in the omnibus appropriations act, this act is null and void.
Passed by the House February 12, 2024.
Passed by the Senate February 29, 2024.
Approved by the Governor March 26, 2024.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 27, 2024.
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