Bills by Topic Results
Bills that have passed the Legislature are shown in bold text with an * preceding them.
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
(See also DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, PERSONS WITH; DOMESTIC RELATIONS; LONG-TERM CARE; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT; VULNERABLE ADULTS) |
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Adult day health programs, encouraging expansion through challenge grant program:
HB 1983 |
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Aged, blind, or disabled program, effective date of modifications to, changing:
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SB 6573, CH 218 (2014) |
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Aged, blind, or disabled program, persons with disability eligible for, continuation of safety net benefits:
HB 2069,
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SHB 2069, CH 10 (2013) |
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Background checks, unsupervised access to children, including persons seeking licensure for child welfare services:
SB 5565,
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SSB 5565, CH 162 (2013) |
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Basic Food, terminating benefits to incarcerated persons, strategies for:
SB 6211, SSB 6211 |
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Behavioral health services, adult, using evidence- and research-based and promising practices to improve outcomes:
HB 1522, SHB 1522, E2SHB 1522, SB 5234, SB 5732, SSB 5732,
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2SSB 5732, CH 338 (2013) |
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Benefit cards, electronic, adding photo identification:
HB 2505, SB 6491 |
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Benefit cards, electronic, adding photo identification for certain programs, studying issues related to:
SSB 6491 |
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Benefit cards, electronic, prohibiting marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia purchases with:
ESSB 5279 |
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Benefit cards, electronic, prohibiting spirits retailers from accepting for purchase of spirits:
ESSB 5279 |
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Benefit cards, electronic, use in spirits retailer point-of-sale machines, requirement to disable machines' ability to accept cards:
SB 5279 |
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Birth control, requiring dispensing of contraceptive drugs for medicaid enrollees:
HB 2022, SHB 2022, SB 5884 |
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Chemical dependency services, adult, using evidence- and research-based and promising practices to improve outcomes:
HB 1522, SHB 1522, E2SHB 1522, SB 5234, SB 5732, SSB 5732,
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2SSB 5732, CH 338 (2013) |
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Child care subsidy program, incentive for working connections applicant or recipient to seek child support enforcement services:
ESSB 6181 |
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Child care subsidy program, payment received to constitute authorization for child support enforcement services:
SB 5157, SB 6181 |
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Child care subsidy program, provider fraud, referral to department of social and health services for investigation and action:
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2ESSB 5157, CH 29 (2013) |
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Child welfare services, agreements with university-based child welfare research entity, state agency requirements:
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ESHB 1774, CH 205 (2013) |
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Child welfare services, assessing character, suitability, and competence for unsupervised access to children:
SB 5565,
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SSB 5565, CH 162 (2013) |
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Child welfare services, caregiver prudent parent standard for childhood activities:
HB 2699, SHB 2699, SB 6479,
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ESSB 6479, CH 104 (2014) |
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Child welfare services, charging fee for child abuse and neglect history request by out-of-state jurisdiction:
SB 5565,
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SSB 5565, CH 162 (2013) |
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Child welfare services, children involved in, eligibility for early childhood education and assistance:
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ESHB 2519, CH 160 (2014) |
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Child welfare services, eligibility for early childhood education and assistance:
SB 6538, SSB 6538 |
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Child welfare services, Indian children, purchase of care from tribes and tribal agencies:
HB 1361,
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SB 5235, CH 32 (2013) |
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Child welfare services, infants in out-of-home care, HIV testing:
SB 5454 |
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Child welfare services, safety assessment tool, institute for public policy to conduct empirical study:
SB 5281, SSB 5281 |
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Child welfare services, service delivery measurements using certain indicators of success, developing:
HB 1774,
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ESHB 1774, CH 205 (2013) |
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Child welfare services, service delivery measurements, developing:
SB 5531, SSB 5531 |
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Child welfare services, training and advancement program, collecting certain financial assistance payments:
HB 1708, SHB 1708, SB 5403, SSB 5403 |
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Child welfare services, youth in out-of-home care, improving educational outcomes:
HB 1566, SHB 1566,
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2SHB 1566, CH 182 (2013) |
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Child welfare system, advisory committee on disproportionate representation of children of color in, membership rules:
HB 2665, SHB 2665, SB 6429 |
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Child welfare transformation design committee, suspending statute that established committee:
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ESHB 1774, CH 205 (2013) |
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Children's services, domestic violence training for caseworkers:
SSB 5162, SB 5315,
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SSB 5315, CH 254 (2013) |
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Criminal offenders, prohibiting persons fleeing justice system or violating parole or probation from receiving public assistance:
HB 2683 |
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Electronic benefit cards, adding photo identification:
HB 2505, SB 6491 |
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Electronic benefit cards, adding photo identification for certain programs, studying issues related to:
SSB 6491 |
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Electronic benefit cards, prohibiting marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia purchases with:
ESSB 5279 |
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Electronic benefit cards, prohibiting spirits retailers from accepting for purchase of spirits:
ESSB 5279 |
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Electronic benefit cards, use in spirits retailer point-of-sale machines, requirement to disable machines' ability to accept cards:
SB 5279 |
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Eligibility for public assistance, limiting enrollment in several programs to citizens of United States and qualified aliens:
HB 1391 |
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Family support and related services, performance-based contracts for, modifying provisions:
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ESHB 1774, CH 205 (2013) |
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Food stamp program, limiting enrollment to citizens of United States and qualified aliens:
HB 1391 |
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Home and community-based medical services, program for military service members' dependents:
HB 2363, SB 6351 |
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Home and community-based mental health services for children, integrated, wraparound with intensive services medicaid program of:
SB 6558, SSB 6558 |
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Home and community-based services, eligibility of recipients for Washington telephone assistance program:
HB 2696 |
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Hospital safety net assessment and fund, modifying provisions to pay for medicaid hospital services and grants:
HB 2016, 2ESHB 2016, SB 5913,
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ESSB 5913, CH 17 (2013) |
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Hospital safety net assessment and fund, state to phase down during medicaid expansion and end reliance on:
SB 5913,
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ESSB 5913, CH 17 (2013) |
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Hospital safety net assessments, adjusting timelines:
HB 2790, HB 2791, SB 6570,
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ESSB 6570, CH 143 (2014) |
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Immigrants, restricting medical care services eligibility to certain legal immigrants:
HB 2069,
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SHB 2069, CH 10 (2013) |
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In-home care services, funding for, repealing nonresident sales tax exemption:
SB 5346 |
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In-home care services, funding for, repealing nonresident sales tax exemption and extending sales tax to debt collection services:
HB 1273 |
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In-home care services, hours, basing solely on objective assessment of need:
HB 1273, SB 5346 |
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In-home care services, medicaid, restoring funding:
HB 2159, SB 6225 |
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In-home personal care, agency electronic timekeeping, limited exemption:
HB 2647, SB 6422 |
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In-home personal care, agency electronic timekeeping, limited exemption when lacking a landline phone:
HB 1362, SB 5509 |
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Interpreter services, authorizing purchase by certain agencies for limited-English speaking or sensory-impaired public assistance applicants and recipients:
HB 1753, SB 5833 |
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Interpreter services, authorizing purchase by certain agencies for limited-English speaking public assistance applicants and recipients:
ESHB 1753, 2SHB 1753, EHB 2617 |
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Medicaid enrollees, services to, allowing nurses and physicians to satisfy continuing education credits by performing:
HB 1628, SB 5825 |
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Medicaid or medigap, supplemental premiums, deduction from disposable income for senior citizen property tax exemption:
SB 6132 |
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Medicaid personal care services, refinancing under community first choice option:
HB 2746,
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ESHB 2746, CH 166 (2014) |
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Medicaid, aligning certain expiration dates that limit payments for health care services with start of medicaid expansion:
SB 5631 |
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Medicaid, contraceptive drugs, requiring dispensing of:
HB 2022, SHB 2022, SB 5884 |
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Medicaid, dual eligibility pilot project, compensation of various long-term care facilities and providers by health care service contractors:
HB 2787, SB 6565 |
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Medicaid, eligible adults and children, premium assistance for health benefit exchange coverage for:
SB 5914, SSB 5914 |
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Medicaid, enhanced payment rates for rural hospitals that are sole community hospitals:
HB 1916, SB 5829, SB 5859,
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SSB 5859, CH 57 (2014) |
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Medicaid, enrollees in border communities, access to care through contractual agreements across state border:
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SB 6419, CH 39 (2014) |
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Medicaid, expansion of, authorizing health care authority to implement:
SSB 5876 |
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Medicaid, expansion of, comprehensive modifications in order to implement:
SB 5894 |
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Medicaid, false claims, reasons for debarment of state procurement contractors to include:
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SB 5948, CH 34 (2013) |
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Medicaid, hospital safety net assessment and fund, modifying provisions to pay for medicaid hospital services and grants:
HB 2016, 2ESHB 2016, SB 5913,
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ESSB 5913, CH 17 (2013) |
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Medicaid, hospital safety net assessment and fund, state to phase down during medicaid expansion and end reliance on:
SB 5913,
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ESSB 5913, CH 17 (2013) |
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Medicaid, in-home care services, restoring funding:
HB 2159, SB 6225 |
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Medicaid, managed care, enrollee comprehensive medication management:
SSB 5213,
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2SSB 5213, CH 261 (2013) |
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Medicaid, managed care, enrollee comprehensive medication management process:
HB 1637 |
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Medicaid, managed care, enrollee prescription review process:
SB 5213 |
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Medicaid, medicaid fraud penalty account, funding prescription monitoring program entirely from:
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HB 1565, CH 36 (2013), SB 5493 |
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Medicaid, nursing facility payment system, compensation by health care service contractors as part of dual eligibility pilot project:
HB 2787, SB 6565 |
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Medicaid, nursing facility payment system, delaying rebase of certain rate components and extending certain rate add-ons:
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HB 2042, CH 3 (2013) |
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Medicaid, nursing facility payment system, establishing disproportionate share rate add-on:
HB 2236 |
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Medicaid, nursing facility payment system, establishing medicaid disproportionate share component rate allocation for each facility:
HB 1885, SB 5838 |
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Medicaid, nursing facility payment system, restoring certain changes made in 2011:
HB 1885, SB 5838 |
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Medicaid, restoring funding for in-home care services:
HB 1273 |
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Medicaid, wraparound with intensive services medicaid program of integrated home and community-based mental health services for children:
SB 6558, SSB 6558 |
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Medical assistance program, complex rehabilitation technology products and services, health care authority to establish separate recognition for:
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E2SHB 1445, CH 178 (2013) |
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Medical assistance program, complex rehabilitation technology products and services, managed care plan adoption of regulations:
HB 1445, SHB 1445 |
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Medical assistance, employer responsibility for medical assistance costs of employees act of 2014:
HB 2588 |
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Medical assistance, health care authority to establish low-income disproportionate share hospital payment mechanism:
HB 1635, SHB 1635 |
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Medical assistance, hospital safety net assessment and fund, modifying provisions to pay for medicaid hospital services and grants:
HB 2016, 2ESHB 2016, SB 5913,
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ESSB 5913, CH 17 (2013) |
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Medical assistance, hospital safety net assessment and fund, state to phase down during medicaid expansion and end reliance on:
SB 5913,
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ESSB 5913, CH 17 (2013) |
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Medical assistance, limiting enrollment to citizens of United States and qualified aliens:
HB 1391 |
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Medical assistance, managed care health systems, payments by health care authority to:
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HB 2798, CH 198 (2014) |
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Medical assistance, noncritical access hospitals, designing system of hospital quality incentive payments for:
HB 2016, 2ESHB 2016, SB 5913,
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ESSB 5913, CH 17 (2013) |
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Medical assistance, prospective payment system, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals, designing system of hospital quality incentive payments for:
SB 5913 |
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Medical care services, restricting eligibility to certain legal immigrants:
HB 2069,
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SHB 2069, CH 10 (2013) |
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Nursing facilities, medicaid payment system, compensation by health care service contractors as part of dual eligibility pilot project:
HB 2787, SB 6565 |
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Nursing facilities, medicaid payment system, various changes:
HB 1885,
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HB 2042, CH 3 (2013), HB 2236, SB 5838 |
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Nursing facilities, preferential admission for certain residents with continuing care contracts:
HB 2778 |
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Out-of-home care, youth residing in group care facility or foster family home, providing schooling support:
HB 1566, SHB 1566,
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2SHB 1566, CH 182 (2013) |
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Personal care services, medicaid, refinancing under community first choice option:
HB 2746,
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ESHB 2746, CH 166 (2014) |
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Program of all-inclusive care (PACE), establishing certain long-term care client rules and program education plan:
HB 1499,
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SHB 1499, CH 258 (2013) |
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Receiving care centers for children removed from parents or guardians, department of social and health services to license:
SB 5475 |
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Receiving care centers, licensing of, short-term emergency and crisis care for child removed from home:
HB 1261 |
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Resource and assessment centers, license for, short-term emergency and crisis care for child removed from home:
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SHB 1261, CH 105 (2013), SSB 5475 |
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Respite care, agency electronic timekeeping, limited exemption:
HB 2647, SB 6422 |
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Respite care, agency electronic timekeeping, limited exemption when lacking a landline phone:
HB 1362, SB 5509 |
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Safety net benefits, continuation for certain persons with a disability:
HB 2069,
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SHB 2069, CH 10 (2013) |
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Social investment steering committee, Washington, establishment of, duties to include pilot programs:
HB 2337, SHB 2337 |
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Temporary assistance for needy families, benefits for a child, exempting fifty percent of caregiver's unearned income:
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HB 2585, CH 75 (2014), SB 6394 |
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Temporary assistance for needy families, drug testing for certain recipients:
HB 1190, SB 5585 |
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Temporary assistance for needy families, family hardship exemption from sixty-month limit:
SHB 1734 |
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Temporary assistance for needy families, family violence and hardship exemptions from sixty-month limit:
HB 1734, SB 5643 |
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Temporary assistance for needy families, limiting enrollment to citizens of United States and qualified aliens:
HB 1391 |
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WorkFirst program, "work activity" definition, amending vocational education training provision:
HB 1342, SB 5600 |
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WorkFirst, instituting a WorkFirst reform program:
HB 2641 |
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Working connections child care program, payment received to constitute authorization for child support enforcement services:
SB 5157, SB 6181 |
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Working connections program, incentive for subsidy applicant or recipient to seek child support enforcement services:
ESSB 6181 |