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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 873

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By House Committee on Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Valle, Jacobsen and Wineberry)

Read first time 3/6/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to teenage suicide; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The secretary of the department of social and health services shall instigate a study on teenage suicide.  The secretary shall report to the appropriate committees of the legislature on the results of the study within one year from the effective date of this section.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     This act shall expire December 1, 1988.