SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT
  (See also CHILD CARE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, PERSONS WITH; DISABILITIES, PERSONS WITH; FOSTER CARE; LONG-TERM CARE; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE) |
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Abuse or neglect of a child, by supervised persons, requiring various organizations to report to department or law enforcement:
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SB 5359, CH 273 (2013) |
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Abuse or neglect of a child, suspected, interviewing of child with third party present:
SB 5316,
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SSB 5316, CH 48 (2013) |
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Abuse, child abuse medical assessments, requirements, department role:
SB 6470 |
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Adoption process improvements, implementing:
2ESHB 1675 |
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Adoption process improvements, implementing certain recommendations of report by ombudsman and department:
HB 1675 |
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Adult day health programs, department to encourage expansion through challenge grant program:
HB 1983 |
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Adult family homes, implementing recommendations of adult family home quality assurance panel, department role:
HB 1701, SHB 1701, 2SHB 1701, SB 5630,
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SSB 5630, CH 300 (2013) |
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Adult family homes, multiple, department acceptance and processing of applications for licensure of additional homes, conditions:
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EHB 1677, CH 185 (2013) |
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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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Aging and disability resource centers, information and evaluations of, reporting requirements for department:
SB 5519, SSB 5519 |
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Alzheimer's disease, department to convene working group to develop state Alzheimer's plan:
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SSB 6124, CH 89 (2014) |
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Background checks, licensing and employment decisions by children's administration resulting from, administrative review:
SB 6168 |
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Background checks, persons employed to provide care for certain persons, modifying provisions:
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SSB 6095, CH 88 (2014) |
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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, department role in strategies for:
SB 6211, SSB 6211 |
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Behavioral health services, adult, department role in strategies for improvement to include establishing steering committee:
HB 1522, SHB 1522, E2SHB 1522, SB 5234 |
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Behavioral health services, combined mental health and chemical dependency services, state purchasing of, department role:
HB 2639, SHB 2639, E2SHB 2639, SB 6312, SSB 6312,
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2SSB 6312, CH 225 (2014) |
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Behavioral health system, adult, department role in improvement of:
SB 5732, SSB 5732,
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2SSB 5732, CH 338 (2013) |
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Benefit cards, electronic, adding photo identification for certain programs, department to study issues related to:
SSB 6491 |
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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 abuse or neglect, substantiated, child protective services to notify school district:
SB 5822 |
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Child abuse or neglect, suspected, receiving care centers to provide short-term emergency and crisis care:
HB 1261 |
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Child abuse or neglect, suspected, resource and assessment centers to provide short-term emergency and crisis care:
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SHB 1261, CH 105 (2013) |
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Child care subsidy program, provider fraud, referral to department for investigation and action:
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2ESSB 5157, CH 29 (2013) |
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Child protective services, family assessment response services, eligibility of child for child care, preschool, and home visiting services:
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ESHB 2519, CH 160 (2014), SB 6538, SSB 6538, 2SSB 6538 |
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Child protective services, family assessment response services, eligibility of child for early learning and child care:
HB 2519 |
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Child protective services, family assessment response, modifying requirements, department role:
HB 1844, SHB 1844 |
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Child protective services, interviews of children, conducting at children's advocacy centers:
HB 1594, SHB 1594, SB 5566, SSB 5566 |
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Child protective services, parent involved with, work group to consider creating certificate of rehabilitation for parents who have turned their lives around:
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SSB 5565, CH 162 (2013) |
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Child protective services, parent involved with, work group to consider creating certificate of suitability for parents who have turned their lives around:
SB 5565 |
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Child protective services, substantiated child abuse or neglect, notifying school districts:
SB 5822 |
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Child protective services, workers to be bonded and licensed as social workers:
SB 5163 |
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Child support collections, gambling payment intercept program, department to implement:
SB 5552, SSB 5552, 2SSB 5552 |
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Child support enforcement services, department to provide for recipients of subsidized or working connections child care:
SB 5157, SB 6181 |
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Child support, department to pass through certain lower dollar amounts:
SB 6398 |
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Child support, enforcement services, incentive for working connections child care subsidy applicant or recipient to seek, department role:
ESSB 6181 |
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Child support, gambling payment intercept program and registry, department to establish:
SB 6398 |
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Child support, noncompliance-based suspension of licenses, sending notice to responsible parent:
HB 1227 |
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Child support, noncompliance-based withholding or suspension of licenses, requirements for all licensing agencies, department role:
SB 6485 |
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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, 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, department to assess 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, department to charge 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, 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, department role:
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, department to cooperate with University of Washington to establish:
HB 1774 |
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Child welfare services, service delivery measurements, department to cooperate with university-based child welfare research entity to establish:
SB 5531, SSB 5531 |
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Child welfare services, service delivery measurements, department to establish:
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ESHB 1774, CH 205 (2013) |
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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, department role in 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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Children's administration, caseworkers, modifying assault in third degree provisions to include assault of caseworker performing official duties:
SB 5659 |
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Children's administration, hiring by agencies under contract with, department liability in certain cases:
ESHB 2535 |
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Children's administration, individuals with unsupervised access to children, disqualifying crimes and negative actions:
ESHB 2535 |
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Children's administration, internal administrative reviews of licensure, employment, or unsupervised access to children denials:
HB 2535 |
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Children's administration, licensing and employment decisions by, administrative review:
SB 6168 |
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Children's administration, licensing and employment decisions by, restrictions:
SSB 6168 |
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Children's administration, providing potential employee background check information to agencies contracting with:
SSB 6168 |
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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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Commitment, involuntary, department role in increasing capacity for:
HB 1777, SHB 1777, SB 5480 |
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Commitment, involuntary, developing individualized discharge plan and arranging transition to community:
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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Community mental health services delivery system, measuring client outcomes and system attributes, department role:
SB 5397 |
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Community mental health services, using evidence- and research-based and promising practice 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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Community residential programs, developmental disabilities, certification and enforcement by department:
SB 5370 |
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Community residential services and supports, funding investigations of vulnerable adult mistreatment with provider certification fees:
HB 1574, SHB 1574, 2SHB 1574 |
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Community residential services and supports, provider certification fees:
HB 1574, SHB 1574, 2SHB 1574 |
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Community residential services and supports, standards for community housing when transitioning habilitation center resident:
SB 5828 |
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Companion animal safety, population control, and spay/neuter assistance program, department administration:
HB 1229, SB 5202, SSB 5202 |
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Criminally insane, petitions for release, service upon secretary of the department:
SB 5617 |
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Developmental and intellectual disabilities, persons with, department to convene stakeholder work groups to examine future needs of:
HB 2432, SHB 2432, 2SHB 2432, SB 6122 |
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Developmental disabilities, appropriations for services for persons with:
SB 6387 |
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Developmental disabilities, community residential services providers, department to review indirect client support/administrative rate:
HB 1333, SB 5196 |
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Developmental disabilities, home and community-based services, basic plus waiver program, expanding client caseload:
SB 6387,
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SSB 6387, CH 139 (2014) |
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Developmental disabilities, individual and family services program, department to develop and implement medicaid program to replace for certain clients:
SHB 2432, 2SHB 2432, SB 6387,
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SSB 6387, CH 139 (2014) |
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Developmental disabilities, informing families building trust communication project, department to expand:
HB 1546, SHB 1546, SB 5358 |
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Developmental disabilities, persons with, department assessment for medicaid programs and services eligibility:
SB 6387,
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SSB 6387, CH 139 (2014) |
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Developmental disabilities, persons with, instituting facility-based vocational training programs, department role:
SB 5470 |
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Developmental disabilities, respite care for persons on no paid service case load, department to provide:
HB 1546, SB 5358 |
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Developmental disabilities, service request list database, department to maintain for certain individuals:
SB 6387,
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SSB 6387, CH 139 (2014) |
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Developmental disabilities, services for, prioritizing to medicaid-eligible clients:
SB 6387,
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SSB 6387, CH 139 (2014) |
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Diabetes epidemic, agency collaboration to identify goals and develop agency plans, department involvement:
HB 1795, SB 5423 |
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Electronic timekeeping, in-home personal care and respite care agencies, limited exemption:
HB 2647, SB 6422 |
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Electronic timekeeping, in-home personal care and respite care agencies, limited exemption when lacking a landline phone:
HB 1362, SB 5509 |
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Employees of department, with overpayment obligations, recovery procedures and actions:
HB 1708, SHB 1708, SB 5403, SSB 5403 |
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Employees, of certain state institutions or centers, membership in public safety employees' retirement system (PSERS):
EHB 1923, SB 5781 |
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Enhanced services facilities, proposal for, department to request:
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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Essential needs and housing support program, eligibility for, department to determine:
HB 2069,
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SHB 2069, CH 10 (2013) |
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Family support and related services, performance-based contracts for, modifying department role:
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ESHB 1774, CH 205 (2013) |
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Federal receipts, requiring that department report concerning federal financial assistance:
SB 5804,
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SSB 5804, CH 32 (2013) |
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Financial recovery, office of, recovery of various assistance or employee overpayments, procedures:
HB 1708, SHB 1708, SB 5403, SSB 5403 |
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Forensic mental health services, provision of, department to contract for independent consultant to review:
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2SSB 5732, CH 338 (2013) |
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Foster care services, extended, department role in providing:
HB 1302, SHB 1302, E2SHB 1302, SB 5405, SSB 5405,
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E2SSB 5405, CH 332 (2013) |
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Hospitals, state hospitals, adding assault of worker to third degree assault:
HB 2703, SB 6022 |
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Hospitals, state hospitals, competency to stand trial evaluations, reimbursement of county for certain costs in certain cases:
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ESSB 5551, CH 284 (2013) |
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Hospitals, state hospitals, competency to stand trial evaluations, requirements:
HB 1627, SHB 1627, 2SHB 1627, SB 5551,
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ESSB 5551, CH 284 (2013) |
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Hospitals, state hospitals, risk of assault, department to develop patient and staff safety plan:
HB 1571, SB 5122, SSB 5122 |
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Hospitals, state hospitals, western state and eastern state, enhancing employee safety through collective bargaining and binding interest arbitration:
SB 6506 |
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Interpreter services, authorizing purchase by department 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 department for limited-English speaking public assistance applicants and recipients:
ESHB 1753, 2SHB 1753, EHB 2617 |
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Interpreter services, spoken language interpreter advisory group, department to establish:
HB 1753, ESHB 1753, 2SHB 1753, EHB 2617, SB 5833 |
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Juvenile rehabilitation administration, analyzing data concerning unlawful firearm possession by juvenile:
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ESHB 2164, CH 117 (2014) |
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Long-term care costs and supports needs, families preparing for, outreach to, department role:
SB 5519, SSB 5519 |
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Long-term care insurance coverage, feasibility study of options for, department role:
HB 2777 |
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Long-term care, providers, personal protective equipment for, department role:
HB 2310,
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SHB 2310, CH 70 (2014), SB 6111 |
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McNeil Island, therapeutic occupation assignments for certain sexually violent predators:
HB 1837, SB 5402, SSB 5402 |
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Medicaid personal care services, department to refinance under community first choice option:
HB 2746,
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ESHB 2746, CH 166 (2014) |
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Medicaid, enrollees in border communities, access to care through contractual agreements across state border, department role:
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SB 6419, CH 39 (2014) |
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Medicaid, nursing facility payment system, extending certain rate add-ons, department role:
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HB 2042, CH 3 (2013) |
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Mental and behavioral health disorders, tracking outcomes, department to implement pilot program:
HB 2315,
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ESHB 2315, CH 71 (2014), SB 6468 |
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Mental health and illness in adults and children, public awareness and education campaign, developing and conducting:
SB 5571 |
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Mental health first aid, training for teachers and educational staff, department role:
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ESHB 1336, CH 197 (2013), SB 5333, SSB 5333 |
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Naselle youth camp, department to maintain medium security forestry camp:
HB 1433 |
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Neglect or abuse of a child, by supervised persons, requiring various organizations to report to department or law enforcement:
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SB 5359, CH 273 (2013) |
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Neglect or abuse of a child, substantiated, child protective services to notify school district:
SB 5822 |
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Neglect or abuse of a child, suspected, interviewing of child with third party present:
SB 5316,
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SSB 5316, CH 48 (2013) |
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Nursing facilities, medicaid payment system, department to establish medicaid disproportionate share component rate allocation for each facility:
HB 1885, SB 5838 |
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Nursing facilities, medicaid payment system, department to establish medicaid disproportionate share rate add-on:
HB 2236 |
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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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Permanency planning hearings, revising department responsibility to provide services to parents:
HB 1821,
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SHB 1821, CH 206 (2013) |
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Personal care services, medicaid, department to refinance under community first choice option:
HB 2746,
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ESHB 2746, CH 166 (2014), SB 6387 |
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Program of all-inclusive care (PACE), department role in 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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Psychiatric boarding, collecting data concerning, reporting requirements, department role:
HB 2761 |
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Psychologists and psychiatrists, employed by department, office of state human resources director to gather market salary data related to:
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ESSB 5551, CH 284 (2013) |
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Real property, surplus governmental, selling or leasing by department for affordable low-income housing:
HB 1563, SHB 1563, E2SHB 1563, SB 5598, SSB 5598 |
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Receiving care centers for children removed from parents or guardians, department 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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Regional support networks, forwarding historical involuntary commitment information to department for firearm background check purposes:
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SSB 5282, CH 216 (2013) |
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Regional support networks, transfer of client to another network, department rule making and procedures:
SB 5153 |
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Regional support networks, transfer of client to another network, uniform transfer agreement for, department role:
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ESSB 5153, CH 230 (2013) |
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Residential habilitation centers, discharge plans for residents:
HB 1527, SHB 1527, SB 5370 |
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Residential habilitation centers, removing closure and admission limitation requirements in certain cases:
SB 5962 |
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Residential habilitation centers, standards for community housing when transitioning center resident:
SB 5828 |
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Residential habilitation centers, various provisions:
HB 1527, SHB 1527, HB 1928, SB 5371, SB 5828, SB 5962 |
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Residential habilitation centers, work group concerning transition process:
HB 1527 |
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Residential services and supports, funding investigations of vulnerable adult mistreatment with provider certification fees:
HB 1574, SHB 1574, 2SHB 1574 |
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Residential services and supports, provider certification fees:
HB 1574, SHB 1574, 2SHB 1574 |
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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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Secure community transition facilities, residents of, therapeutic occupational assignments on McNeil Island:
HB 1837, SB 5402, SSB 5402 |
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Secure facilities for sexually violent predators, introducing contraband in first, second, and third degrees:
HB 1836,
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SHB 1836, CH 43 (2013), SB 5404, SSB 5404 |
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Secure facilities for sexually violent predators, introducing contraband, exempting certain attorneys from certain prohibitions:
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SHB 1836, CH 43 (2013), SSB 5404 |
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Service coordination organizations and contracting entities, accountability measures, department to incorporate into contracts:
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ESHB 1519, CH 320 (2013) |
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Service coordination organizations, accountability measures, department to incorporate into contracts:
HB 1519 |
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Sex offenders, registered, requirements involving department when residing in adult family home:
HB 1125 |
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Sexually violent predators, annual examinations and treatment, modifying requirements, including department role:
HB 2122, SB 5965, SSB 5965 |
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Sexually violent predators, returned to department after confinement or detention, department to conduct examination, modifying effective date for:
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ESSB 5480, CH 335 (2013) |
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Supported living facilities, contracting and contractors, instituting comprehensive provisions, including debarment of contractors and department role:
HB 1747, SB 5481 |
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Total confinement facilities, residents of, therapeutic occupational assignments on McNeil Island:
HB 1837, SB 5402, SSB 5402 |
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Vendors, overpayments against, department collection from vendors practicing strategic successorship:
SB 5401 |
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Vocational rehabilitation, division of, state agency reporting requirements and hiring of referrals from division:
SB 6329 |
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Vulnerable adult care, abuse, health care professional license suspension and practice prohibition:
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HB 1003, CH 86 (2013) |
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Vulnerable adult, definition of, expanding to include persons with developmental disabilities for investigation purposes:
HB 2633, SB 6420, SSB 6420 |
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Vulnerable adults, records from abuse and other investigations, department use and sharing:
HB 1523,
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SB 5510, CH 263 (2013) |
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WorkFirst, instituting a WorkFirst reform program, department role:
HB 2641 |
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Working connections child care, Aclara group report on eligibility requirements, implementing recommendations, department role:
HB 1671, SHB 1671, 2SHB 1671, SB 5595, SSB 5595,
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2SSB 5595, CH 337 (2013) |
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