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Chapter 71.34 RCW

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR MINORS

Complete chapter HTMLPDF

RCW dispositions

(Formerly: Mental health services for minors)

Sections

HTMLPDF 71.34.010Purpose.
HTMLPDF 71.34.020Definitions.
GENERAL
HTMLPDF 71.34.300Evaluation and treatment program for minors—Authority's responsibility.
HTMLPDF 71.34.305Notice to parents, school contacts for referring students to inpatient treatment.
HTMLPDF 71.34.310Jurisdiction over proceedings under chapter—Venue.
HTMLPDF 71.34.312Intervention by attorney representing a tribe.
HTMLPDF 71.34.313Assertion of jurisdiction or authority over tribes prohibited.
HTMLPDF 71.34.315Mental health commissioners—Authority.
HTMLPDF 71.34.320Transfer of superior court proceedings to juvenile department.
HTMLPDF 71.34.325Court proceedings under chapter subject to rules of state supreme court.
HTMLPDF 71.34.330Attorneys appointed for minors—Compensation.
HTMLPDF 71.34.335Court records and files confidential—Availability.
HTMLPDF 71.34.351Delivery of minor to treatment facilities.
HTMLPDF 71.34.355Rights of minors undergoing treatment—Posting—Waiver—Presumption of incompetency.
HTMLPDF 71.34.356Possessions of minors undergoing treatment.
HTMLPDF 71.34.360No detention of minors after eighteenth birthday—Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 71.34.365Release of minor—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 71.34.375Family-initiated treatment—Notice to parents of available treatment options.
HTMLPDF 71.34.377Failure to notify parent or guardian of treatment options—Civil penalty.
HTMLPDF 71.34.379Notice to parent or guardian—Treatment options—Policy and protocol adoption—Report.
HTMLPDF 71.34.380Department, department of health, and authority to adopt rules to effectuate chapter.
HTMLPDF 71.34.385Uniform application of chapter—Training for designated crisis responders.
HTMLPDF 71.34.387Online training for behavioral health providers—State law and best practices when providing behavioral health services to children, youth, and families.
HTMLPDF 71.34.390Redirection of Title XIX funds to fund placements within the state.
HTMLPDF 71.34.395Availability of treatment does not create right to obtain public funds.
HTMLPDF 71.34.400Eligibility for medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW—Payment by authority.
HTMLPDF 71.34.405Liability for costs of minor's treatment and care—Rules.
HTMLPDF 71.34.406Liability of costs of minor's treatment—Involuntary detention—Rules.
HTMLPDF 71.34.410Liability for performance of duties under this chapter limited.
HTMLPDF 71.34.415Judicial services—Civil commitment cases—Reimbursement.
HTMLPDF 71.34.420Evaluation and treatment services—Unavailability—Single bed certification.
HTMLPDF 71.34.430Release of adolescent's mental health information to parent without adolescent's consent.
HTMLPDF 71.34.440Detention of minors—Permission to leave facility.
HTMLPDF 71.34.445Temporary detention for evaluation regarding involuntary commitment.
ADOLESCENT-INITIATED TREATMENT
HTMLPDF 71.34.500Self-admission of adolescent for inpatient behavioral health treatment or substance use disorder treatment—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 71.34.510Notice to parents of adolescent voluntarily admitted to inpatient treatment—When required—Duties of professional person in charge—Form of notice.
HTMLPDF 71.34.520Notice of intent to leave inpatient treatment by adolescent voluntarily admitted—Duties of receiving staff member—Time frame for discharge of adolescent.
HTMLPDF 71.34.530Outpatient treatment of adolescent.
FAMILY-INITIATED TREATMENT
HTMLPDF 71.34.600Parental request for determination of whether adolescent has a behavioral health disorder requiring inpatient treatment—Adolescent's consent not required for admission, evaluation, and treatment—Duties and obligations of professional person and facility.
HTMLPDF 71.34.610Authority's review of medical necessity of inpatient treatment of adolescent admitted to a facility due to parental request—Required considerations in making determination—Procedures for release—At-risk youth petition—Costs—Public funds.
HTMLPDF 71.34.620Adolescent's court petition for release from inpatient treatment facility—Judicial review of medical necessity.
HTMLPDF 71.34.630Adolescent not released from inpatient treatment facility by court petition—Release within thirty days—Initiation of proceedings to stop release.
HTMLPDF 71.34.640Evaluation of treatment of adolescents.
HTMLPDF 71.34.650Parental request for determination of whether adolescent has a behavioral health disorder requiring outpatient treatment—Adolescent's consent not required for evaluation and certain treatment—Treatment reviews—Discharge.
HTMLPDF 71.34.660Limitation on liability for admitting or accepting adolescent.
HTMLPDF 71.34.670"Appropriately trained professional person" defined by rule.
HTMLPDF 71.34.680Data collection and tracking system for adolescents receiving treatment.
INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT
HTMLPDF 71.34.700Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Temporary detention.
HTMLPDF 71.34.705Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Considerations.
HTMLPDF 71.34.706Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Considerations.
HTMLPDF 71.34.710Adolescent who presents likelihood of serious harm or is gravely disabled—Transport to inpatient facility—Petition for initial detention—Notice—Facility to evaluate and admit or release adolescent.
HTMLPDF 71.34.720Examination and evaluation of minor approved for inpatient admission—Referral to a secure withdrawal management and stabilization facility or substance use disorder treatment program—Right to communication, exception—Evaluation and treatment period.
HTMLPDF 71.34.730Petition for fourteen-day commitment—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 71.34.735Commitment hearing—Continuance or postponement.
HTMLPDF 71.34.740Commitment hearing—Requirements—Findings by court—Commitment—Release.
HTMLPDF 71.34.750Petition for one hundred eighty-day commitment—Hearing—Requirements—Findings by court—Commitment order—Release—Successive commitments.
HTMLPDF 71.34.755Less restrictive alternative treatment—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 71.34.760Placement of minor in state evaluation and treatment facility or substance use disorder treatment program—Placement committee—Facility or program to report to committee.
HTMLPDF 71.34.770Release of minor—Conditional release—Discharge.
HTMLPDF 71.34.780Minor's failure to adhere to outpatient conditions—Deterioration of minor's functioning—Transport to facility or program—Order of apprehension and detention—Revocation of alternative treatment or conditional release—Hearings.
HTMLPDF 71.34.790Transportation for minors committed to state facility for one hundred eighty-day treatment.
HTMLPDF 71.34.795Transferring or moving persons from juvenile correctional institutions or facilities to evaluation and treatment facilities.
HTMLPDF 71.34.796Transfer of person committed to juvenile correction institution to institution or facility for juveniles with behavioral health disorders.
HTMLPDF 71.34.815Assisted outpatient treatment—Findings—Petition, court order for less restrictive alternative treatment—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 71.34.905Rule making—Access to files and records of court proceedings.
HTMLPDF 71.34.910Appearance by video technology.
HTMLPDF 71.34.915Authority outreach—Law and policy communication—Accessibility.
HTMLPDF 71.34.918Authority outreach—Parent portal—Report to legislature.

Notes:

Court files and records closed—Exceptions: RCW 71.05.620.