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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 951

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Addison, Zellinsky, P. King, Sanders, Holland, Fuhrman, Dobbs, Long, Doty, L. Smith and Isaacson

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

AN ACT Relating to the community work and training program; and amending RCW 74.04.473.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 41, chapter 41, Laws of 1983 1st ex. sess. and RCW 74.04.473 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) The department shall provide a state-wide community work and training program for recipients of aid for dependent children in accordance with RCW 74.04.390 through 74.04.470 beginning no later than January 1, 1984.  The program shall be designed to:

          (a) ((Provide community work and training services to a minimum of two hundred recipients in each biennium;

          (b))) Provide community work and training experience which will enhance the recipient's ability to obtain employment;

          (((c))) (b) Provide useful assistance to public and private nonprofit agencies which would otherwise not be provided by paid employees;

          (((d))) (c) Coordinate with other public or private employment programs to assure maximum employment opportunities for program participants;

          (((e))) (d) Utilize the effective components of the community work experience pilot program.