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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 825

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Lux, Patrick, Lewis, Appelwick, Wineberry, Dellwo, Jacobsen and Scott

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Social & Health Services.

AN ACT Relating to developmental disabilities; and amending RCW 71.20.016.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 6, chapter 224, Laws of 1982 as amended by section 19, chapter 41, Laws of 1983 1st ex. sess. and RCW 71.20.016 are each amended to read as follows:

          The term "developmental disability" means a disability attributable to mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, or another neurological or other condition of an individual found by the secretary of the department of social and health services to be closely related to mental retardation or to require treatment similar to that required for mentally retarded individuals or individuals with cerebral palsy, which disability originates before such individual attains age eighteen, which has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely, and which constitutes a substantial handicap to such individual.