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Strengthening the financial stability of persons in the care of the department of children, youth, and families.
Supporting children and youth behavioral health.
Concerning updates to the licensing division of the department of children, youth, and families.
Enhancing the operational efficiency of child care providers.
Renaming certain state residential facilities for persons with developmental disabilities.
Increasing transparency regarding residential habilitation center compliance with certain federal requirements.
Repealing the community protection program.
Streamlining monitoring and oversight activities related to community residential service business providers.
Concerning the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs advisory committee.
Concerning early learning program licensing requirements.
Updating the office of homeless youth program provisions.
Updating the supported living cost report.
Increasing access to the working connections child care program for graduate and professional students.
Correcting terminology to align the revised code of Washington with recent reorganization at the department of social and health services.
Concerning the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs advisory committee.
Improving the risk assessment process used when investigating alleged child abuse and neglect referrals.
Concerning the legislative-executive poverty reduction task force.
Modifying provisions related to individuals found to have committed criminal offenses when under the age of 18.
Improving the risk assessment process used when investigating alleged child abuse and neglect referrals.
Requiring publication of child near fatality reviews.
Streamlining monitoring and oversight activities related to community residential service business providers.
Authorizing the court to order certain conditions during child welfare shelter care hearings.
Increasing access to data related to the safety and stability of residential settings for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Modifying the standard by which courts, law enforcement, and hospitals may remove children based on child abuse or neglect.
Concerning the department of children, youth, and families accountability board.
Creating a housing assistance pilot program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Providing a definition for imminent physical harm in the context of child welfare.
Expanding access to the early childhood education and assistance program for military families.
Adjusting the early achievers quality improvement awards.
Establishing a juvenile firearm early intervention alternative.
Concerning unexpected fatalities of residents of department of social and health services facilities.
Concerning dental care services at residential habilitation centers.
Supporting foster youth.
Addressing the rise in maltreatment-related child fatalities or near fatalities by supporting families that have received a child welfare response.
Maintaining food assistance for certain individuals affected by federal eligibility requirements.
Establishing a dental care pilot at the Rainier school residential habilitation center.
Concerning the transfer of the juvenile justice functions.
Concerning coaches of youth sports organizations.
Strengthening the financial stability of persons in the care of the department of children, youth, and families.
Improving the effectiveness of juvenile justice programs by providing ongoing evaluations and clarifying juvenile diversion practices.
Improving outcomes for individuals adjudicated of juvenile offenses by increasing opportunities for community placement options and refining procedural requirements.
Concerning management of individuals who are placed in juvenile rehabilitation institutions.
Improving outcomes for individuals adjudicated of juvenile offenses by increasing opportunities for community placement options and refining procedural requirements.
Revised for 2nd substitute: Concerning the management of individuals who are placed in juvenile rehabilitation institutions.
Protecting developmentally disabled individuals and their families by maintaining the operation of existing state facilities with underutilized capacity and allowing new residents.
Modifying access to the working connections child care program.
Concerning management of individuals who are placed in juvenile rehabilitation institutions.
Concerning the requirements for accessing the Washington death with dignity act.
Expanding access for small business employees and adjusting implementation dates for working connections child care.
Concerning payment standards for cash assistance programs.
Promoting safety of youth sports.
Concerning cooperation by the department of children, youth, and families with law enforcement.
Concerning concurrent jurisdiction for courts of limited jurisdiction over juvenile misdemeanor offenses.
Addressing threats of harm to children by modifying the child removal standard related to another person's use or possession of a high-potency synthetic opioid.
Improving access and practices relating to portable orders for life-sustaining treatment.
Expanding the early childhood court program.
Concerning the Washington future fund pilot project.
Reporting information related to racial disproportionality in child welfare.
Redesigning the community-based training pathway for licensed child care providers.
Repealing the long-term care services and supports trust program.
Concerning child care centers operated in existing buildings.
Concerning offenses involving unlawful possession of a firearm by a juvenile.
Expanding time limit exemptions applicable to cash assistance programs.
Modernizing the child fatality statute.
Concerning the age at which clients of the developmental disabilities administration may receive employment and community inclusion services.
Reducing the developmental disabilities administration's no-paid services caseload services.
Closing the Yakima Valley school and Rainier school.
Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Implementing the recommendations of the long-term services and supports trust commission.
Concerning mobile market programs.
Modifying licensing requirements for child care and early learning providers.
Increasing access to respite care for those with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their caregivers.
Improving outcomes for individuals adjudicated of juvenile offenses by increasing opportunities for community placement options and refining procedural requirements.
Updating eligible uses for the essential needs and housing support program.
Improving the well-being of children in child care by enhancing transparency measures and modifying liability insurance requirements.
Concerning placement of individuals in juvenile rehabilitation institutions.
Reopening the exemption from the long-term services and supports trust program for employees who have purchased long-term care insurance.
Concerning juvenile justice.
Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
Improving community inclusion services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Concerning qualifications for child care providers.
Improving the effectiveness of juvenile justice programs by providing ongoing evaluations and clarifying juvenile diversion practices.
Addressing the burden of unintentional overpayments on older adults and adults with disabilities served by the department of social and health services.
Maintaining the safety of children.
Protecting spouses by allowing the sharing of benefits under the long-term services and supports trust program.
Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect.
Authorizing local licensing and regulation of child care providers.
Modifying child care and early childhood development programs.
Implementing the recommendations of the long-term services and supports trust commission.
Revised for 1st substitute: Supporting economic security by updating provisions related to the home security fund and the essential needs and housing support program.
Expanding the duties of the office of the family and children's ombuds to include juvenile rehabilitation facilities operated by the department of children, youth, and families.
Concerning services and supports for individuals with traumatic brain injuries.
Reducing the developmental disabilities administration's no-paid services caseload services.
Addressing the burden of unintentional overpayments on older adults and adults with disabilities served by the department of social and health services.
Modifying child care provider qualifications.
Extending the effective date of licensing living accommodations for residential private schools.
Adjusting age requirements for accessing the early childhood education and assistance program.
Concerning utilization of developmental disabilities waivers.
Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect.
Exempting attorney higher education employees from certain mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect.
Revised for 1st substitute: Modifying provisions regarding family home providers overseen and certified by a federal military service.
Providing compensation to members of the department of children, youth, and families oversight board with direct lived experience.
Concerning prison riot offenses.
Concerning family reconciliation services.
Extending the program to address complex cases of children in crisis.
Concerning the child welfare housing assistance program.
Improving access to educational services by reducing barriers to obtaining vital records and allowing alternative forms of documentation.
Modernizing the child fatality statute.
Concerning child care centers operated in existing buildings.
Expanding the early childhood court program.
Concerning mobile market programs.
Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.
Addressing child exposure to violence.
Concerning fingerprint-based background checks.
Concerning fingerprint background check on applicants.
Concerning private case management of child welfare services.
Expanding the activities of the children's mental health services consultation program.
Providing early intervention services for eligible children.
Revising conditions under which a person is subject to exclusive adult jurisdiction and extending juvenile court jurisdiction over serious cases to age twenty-five.
Requiring the department of social and health services to collect and publicly report information on the safe surrender of newborn children.
Expanding the provision of trauma-informed child care.
Improving access to mental health services for children and youth.
Concerning the handling of child forensic interview and child interview digital recordings.
Requiring the department of social and health services to collect and publicly report information on the safe surrender of newborn children.
Requiring the department of social and health services to collect and publicly report information on the safe surrender of newborn children.
Ensuring that no youth is discharged from a public system of care into homelessness.
Concerning access to the Washington early childhood education and assistance program.
Establishing the legislative-executive WorkFirst poverty reduction oversight task force.
Concerning diversion of juvenile offenses.
Extending the timeline for completing a family assessment response.
Concerning the Washington achieving a better life experience program account.
Establishing a child care collaborative task force.
Concerning background checks for persons providing child care services.
Making technical changes regarding the department of children, youth, and families.
Transferring the working connections and seasonal child care programs to the department of children, youth, and families.
Providing the list of foster parent rights and responsibilities to prospective and current foster parents.
Concerning eligibility for the essential needs and housing support and the aged, blind, or disabled assistance programs.
Revising resource limitations for public assistance.
Concerning expansion of extended foster care eligibility.
Concerning the online availability of foster parent preservice training.
Concerning dependency petitions where the department of social and health services is the petitioner.
Allowing minors to consent to share their personally identifying information in the Washington homeless client management information system.
Concerning equitable educational outcomes for foster children and youth from preschool to postsecondary education.
Concerning behavioral rehabilitation services.
Concerning juvenile offenses.
Phasing out use of the valid court order exception to place youth in detention for noncriminal behavior.
Concerning confinement in juvenile rehabilitation facilities.
Concerning the sharing of information between participants in multidisciplinary coordination of child sexual abuse investigations.
Requiring the department of children, youth, and families to provide a written explanation for a determination of unsuitability for unsupervised access to children in care.
Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.
Establishing the working families' child care access and affordability through regional employers act.
Establishing a fee for certification for the residential services and supports program to cover investigative costs.
Including referred and diverted youth in establishing community juvenile accountability program guidelines.
Creating and funding a school choice scholarship program for foster students.
Concerning diversion agreements and counsel and release agreements.
Concerning diversion agreements and counsel and release agreements.
Revising conditions under which a person is subject to exclusive adult jurisdiction and extending juvenile court jurisdiction over serious cases to age twenty-five.
Concerning creation of the select committee on supported employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Making technical changes regarding the department of children, youth, and families.
Extending the timeline for completing a family assessment response.
Concerning the issuance of identicards to individuals released from certain juvenile rehabilitation facilities.
Extending the timeline for completing a family assessment response, allowing the department of social and health services to complete a family assessment response upon the verbal agreement of a parent to participate, and defining disqualifying crimes.
Concerning therapeutic responses to commercially sexually exploited youth.
Providing services and supports to pregnant and parenting minors to improve educational attainment.
Concerning private case management of child welfare services.
Concerning the Washington achieving a better life experience program account.
Concerning the baby court initiative.
Expanding eligibility for the early childhood education and assistance program.
Concerning expansion of extended foster care eligibility.
Concerning additional enrichment levy amounts to fund early learning programs.
Concerning families in need of services.
Establishing a commission on persons with disabilities.
Concerning regulation of licensed child care providers.
Supporting the business of child care.
Concerning group training homes.
Concerning juvenile offenses.
Concerning developmental disability supported employment provider job coaches.
Concerning employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Providing early intervention services for eligible children.
Expanding the activities of the children's mental health services consultation program.
Concerning equitable educational outcomes for foster children and youth from preschool to postsecondary education.
Ensuring access to community-based services for developmentally disabled citizens currently served by the developmental disabilities administration.
Improving placement stability for children and youth involved with child welfare services.
Concerning background checks for persons providing child care services.
Concerning pediatric transitional care centers.
Addressing confinement in juvenile rehabilitation facilities for juveniles convicted in adult court.
Concerning family reunification in the child welfare process.
Concerning child welfare volunteer guardian ad litem program requirements.
Concerning individuals receiving both employment and community access services.
Concerning notification requirements for the department of social and health services.
Concerning paperwork reduction in order to improve the availability of mental health services to protect children and families.
Suspending certain rule-making activities of the department of early learning.
Allowing foster children to be homeschooled.
Excluding holidays and weekends from the time period required for youth shelters to notify parents.
Providing that home-based instruction of a foster child may not be the sole basis for denying a foster-family home license.
Providing for the use of independent mediators to address adverse child care licensing decisions.
Collecting data on hunger in Washington state.
Establishing community appeals boards that review licensing decisions of the department of early learning.
Concerning child welfare court proceedings.
Eliminating the placement of foster youth in hotel rooms or department offices.
Establishing a pilot project to license outdoor early learning and child care programs.
Concerning the revision of exclusive adult jurisdiction.
Concerning creation of a certified child safety policy.
Authorizing the department of social and health services to assess and offer services to child sex trafficking victims.
Concerning the department of early learning's access to records and personal information for purposes of determining character and suitability of child care workers and individuals who have unsupervised access to children in child care settings.
Addressing confinement in juvenile rehabilitation facilities for juveniles convicted in adult court.
Concerning the business of child care.
Concerning child welfare volunteer guardian ad litem program requirements.
Concerning the provision of trauma-informed child care.
Creating a specialized child care pilot program for vulnerable children.
Requiring the department of social and health services to request all necessary exemptions and waivers from the federal government to allow students to use electronic benefit transfer cards at institutions of higher education.
Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
Concerning pediatric transitional care centers.
Ensuring a parent or guardian has the authority to admit and keep a minor child into a treatment facility for chemical dependency treatment for fourteen days.
Requiring the use of trained meeting facilitators in certain planning meetings involving children, parents, caregivers, and others.
Concerning family reunification in the child welfare process.
Requiring the department of social and health services to collect and publicly report information on the safe surrender of newborn children.
Concerning individuals receiving both employment and community access services.
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Concerning the financing of early learning facilities.
Creating the department of children, youth, and families.
Concerning working connections child care eligibility for vulnerable children.
Concerning pediatric transitional care centers.
Reducing the population requirement in a consortium of counties in order to operate a juvenile correctional facility.
Improving transitions in extended foster care to increase housing stability for foster youth.
Concerning notification requirements for the department of social and health services.
Concerning information sharing related to implementation of the homeless youth prevention and protection act of 2015.
Concerning the rights of an alleged parent in dependency proceedings.
Concerning arrest of sixteen and seventeen year olds for domestic violence assault.
Reducing certain documentation and paperwork requirements in order to improve children's mental health and safety.
Implementing recommendations from the children's mental health work group.
Creating a local pathway for local governments, school districts, and nonprofit organizations to provide more high quality early learning opportunities by reducing barriers and increasing efficiency.
Establishing a pilot project to license outdoor early learning and child care programs.
Updating certain department of early learning advising and contracting mechanisms to reflect federal requirements, legislative mandates, and planned system improvements.
Concerning the posting of child abuse and neglect mandated reporter requirements.
Providing protections for persons with developmental disabilities.
Creating the parent to parent program for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Concerning the definition of "agency" for purposes of early learning programs.
Extending dates concerning measuring performance and performance-based contracting of the child welfare system.
Notifying foster parents of dependency hearings and their opportunity to be heard in those hearings.
Concerning child care center licensing requirements.
Concerning host home programs for youth.
Concerning the arrest of sixteen and seventeen year olds for domestic violence assault.
Strengthening opportunities for the rehabilitation and reintegration of juvenile offenders.
Concerning mental health and chemical dependency treatment for juvenile offenders.
Increasing access to adequate and appropriate mental health services for children and youth.
Creating the parent to parent program for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Coordinating services and programs for foster youth in order to improve educational outcomes.
Coordinating services and programs for foster youth in order to improve educational outcomes.
Expanding distribution dates for supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.
Concerning early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
Creating the Washington achieving a better life experience program.
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Strengthening opportunities for the rehabilitation and reintegration of juvenile offenders.
Creating the Washington achieving a better life experience program.
Concerning the custody and placement of juveniles.
Concerning the use of psychotropic medication on children.
Reducing the population requirement in a consortium of counties in order to operate a juvenile correctional facility.
Requiring the department of social and health services to collect and publicly report information on the safe surrender of newborn children.
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Repealing certain provisions governing income eligibility for temporary assistance for needy families benefits.
Concerning implementation of the homeless youth prevention and protection act of 2015.
Creating an office of the developmental disabilities ombuds.
Defining and using the term center-based services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Concerning employment and community access services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Clarifying the authority of officers to restrain children when necessary.
Concerning working connections child care eligibility for vulnerable children.
Concerning the department of early learning's access to records and personal information for purposes of determining character and suitability of child care workers.
Clarifying which counties may provide and maintain detention rooms or detention houses.
Concerning the definition of "agency" for purposes of early learning programs.
Promoting the reduction of intergenerational poverty.
Concerning the definition of school-age child for purposes of school-age child care.
Requiring the department of social and health services to notify the military regarding child abuse and neglect allegations of families with an active military status.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Creating the parents for parents program.
Modifying provisions governing the maintenance and disclosure of information related to reports of child abuse and neglect.
Concerning the sealing of juvenile records and fines imposed in juvenile cases.
Concerning homeless youth prevention and protection.
Concerning health and safety requirements for child care programs that serve school-age children.
Creating a task force on poverty.
Concerning prevocational services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Improving quality in the early care and education system.
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Creating a task force on poverty.
Concerning health and safety requirements for child care programs that serve school-age children.
Specifying that qualified grandparents are the priority placement option for children needing out-of-home care in dependency proceedings.
Addressing permanency plans of care for dependent children.
Requiring an analysis of the homeless youth population.
Requiring photo identification on electronic benefit cards.
Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
Concerning investigations and family assessments in cases of child abuse and neglect.
Transferring certification responsibilities for chemical dependency treatment programs from the department of social and health services to the department of health.
Concerning service options for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Concerning early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
Requiring the department of social and health services to request all necessary exemptions and waivers from the federal government to allow students to use electronic benefit transfer cards at institutions of higher education.
Concerning children's advocacy centers.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Creating the parents for parents program.
Concerning substance abuse prevention and treatment programs funded by the marijuana excise tax.
Creating the youth substance abuse prevention and education program.
Modifying provisions governing the maintenance and disclosure of information related to reports of child abuse and neglect.
Concerning the sealing of juvenile records and fines imposed in juvenile cases.
Allowing prosecutors to refer juveniles to restorative justice programs.
Concerning homeless youth prevention and protection.
Concerning public-private financing of prevention-based social service programs.
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Concerning arrest of sixteen and seventeen year olds for domestic violence assault.
Requiring the department of social and health services to notify the military regarding child abuse and neglect allegations of families with an active military status.
Concerning filing a petition seeking termination of parental rights.
Concerning filing a petition seeking termination of parental rights.
Improving quality in the early care and education system.
Requiring the department of social and health services to notify the military regarding child abuse and neglect allegations of families with an active military status.
Concerning near fatality incidents of children who have received services from the department of social and health services.
Concerning the sealing of juvenile records and fines imposed in juvenile cases.
Addressing permanency plans of care for dependent children.
Concerning good cause exceptions during permanency hearings.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Concerning department of early learning fatality reviews.
Creating an investment program for individuals with disabilities.
Creating the parents for parents program.
Concerning homeless youth prevention and protection.
Requiring costs for the examination of a suspected victim of assault of a child to be paid by the state.
Concerning enforcement standards for residential services and support providers.
Requiring a report analyzing the correlation of certain family factors with academic and behavioral indicators of student success.
Concerning access to juvenile records.
Concerning parents with intellectual or developmental disabilities involved in dependency proceedings.
Concerning early education for children involved in the child welfare system.
Concerning individuals with developmental disabilities who have requested a service from a program that is already at capacity.
Concerning the arrest of individuals who suffer from chemical dependency.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Concerning statements made by juveniles during assessments or screenings for mental health or chemical dependency treatment.
Concerning background checks for persons with whom dependent children are placed.
Providing caregivers authority to allow children placed in their care to participate in normal childhood activities based on a reasonable and prudent parent standard.
Concerning income eligibility for temporary assistance for needy families benefits for a child.
Concerning intensive home and community-based mental health services for medicaid-eligible children.
Concerning long-term planning for developmental disabilities services.
Concerning the termination of basic food benefits to incarcerated persons.
Concerning child care subsidies and child support enforcement services.
Concerning placement of sixteen and seventeen year olds arrested for domestic violence assault.
Providing caregivers authority to allow children placed in their care to participate in normal childhood activities based on a reasonable and prudent parent standard.
Concerning filing a petition seeking termination of parental rights.
Concerning the expiration of the advisory committee on the disproportionate representation of children of color in Washington's child welfare system.
Concerning enforcement standards for residential services and support providers.
Clarifying the lead agency for the early support for infant and toddlers program.
Identifying characteristics of the homeless youth population.
Concerning review of licensing, unsupervised access to children, and employment decisions by the children's administration.
Concerning employment of persons with disabilities.
Improving quality in the early care and education system.
Changing provisions relating to the early learning advisory council.
Concerning department of early learning fatality reviews.
Establishing a fee for certification for the residential services and supports program to cover investigative costs.
Concerning compliance with inspections of child care facilities.
Limiting use of public assistance benefits.
Exempting certain family day care providers who have been operating for at least five years from any requirement to have a high school diploma or equivalent education.
Concerning safe sleep practices in child care settings.
Concerning long-term planning for developmental disabilities services.
Concerning fetal alcohol exposure.
Allowing youthful offenders who complete their sentences prior to age twenty-one equal access to a full continuum of rehabilitative and reentry services.
Concerning public-private financing for prevention-focused social services and health care services.
Allowing individuals with developmental disabilities to access both employment services and community access services at the same time.
Requiring photo identification on electronic benefit cards.
Concerning placement of certain juveniles arrested for nonfelonious domestic violence.
Concerning interviewing children in child protective services investigations at children's advocacy centers.
Concerning interviewing children in child protective services investigations at children's advocacy centers.
Prohibiting individuals who are fleeing from the justice system or violating parole or probation from receiving public assistance.
Establishing the WorkFirst reform program.
Concerning the children of family day care providers.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Exempting certain family day care providers who have been operating for at least five years from any requirement to have a high school diploma or equivalent education.
Concerning sibling visitation for children in foster care.
Concerning residential habilitation center residents' transition to the community.
Concerning the enforcement powers of the office of financial recovery.
Concerning child care reform.
Concerning family assessment response in child protective services.
Implementing the recommendations of the developmental disability service system task force.
Including family treatment courts in the definition of drug courts.
Requiring the building code council to adopt rules regarding before or after-school programs.
Concerning family assessment response in child protective services.
Concerning payment options for parents who receive working connections child care benefits.
Concerning the prevention of childhood obesity in early learning programs.
Developing and enforcing standards for the department of social and health services' supported living program.
Concerning exemptions from the five-year time limit for recipients of the temporary assistance for needy families program.
Concerning the enforcement powers of the office of financial recovery.
Concerning child care reform.
Concerning people with disabilities who receive no paid services from the department of social and health services' division of developmental disabilities.
Concerning residential habilitation center residents' transition to the community.
Creating a sentence for treatment program for juvenile offenders.
Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Concerning juveniles and runaway children.
Exempting certain family day care providers who have been operating for at least five years from any requirement to have a high school diploma or equivalent education.
Concerning sibling visitation for children in foster care.
Requiring drug testing for recipients of benefits under the temporary assistance for needy families program.
Concerning the children of family day care providers.
Regulating provision of child care.
Concerning child care reform.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Concerning sibling visitation for children in foster care.
Concerning early learning opportunities.
Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect by supervised persons.
Implementing the recommendations made by the Powell fatality team.
Concerning good cause exceptions during permanency hearings.
Measuring performance of the child welfare system.
Concerning educational outcomes of youth in out-of-home care.
Providing for juvenile mental health diversion and disposition strategies.
Concerning the rights of parents who are incarcerated or in residential substance abuse treatment.
Concerning background checks for individuals seeking a license under chapter 74.13 RCW or unsupervised access to children.
Concerning entities that provide recreational or educational programming for school-aged children.
Establishing receiving care centers for emergency and crisis care for children removed from their homes.
Adopting a model policy to require a third person to be present during interviews.
Concerning juveniles and runaway children.
Prohibiting the implementation of certain rules pertaining to licensed family day care providers.
Creating a sentence for treatment program for juvenile offenders.
Improving child welfare outcomes.
Providing for information and record-sharing between the children's administration in DSHS and the department of early learning.
Exempting qualified licensed child care providers from school district and educational service district records check requirements.
Concerning the termination of public assistance benefits.
Reformatting the juvenile offender sentencing grid.
Requiring the department of early learning to develop state early learning guidelines.
Providing for reward for reporting public assistance fraud.
Concerning residential habilitation center residents' transition to the community.
Making juvenile records confidential.
Implementing a voluntary quality rating and improvement system for child care centers and early learning programs.
Extending the eligibility period for the working connections child care program.
Promoting local intervention and prevention programs for reducing gang violence.
Requiring drug testing for applicants for benefits under the temporary assistance for needy families program.
Creating the high-quality early learning act.
Making technical corrections to department of early learning statutes.
Requiring notification to schools regarding the release of certain offenders.
Regarding shared parenting placement agreements for children with disabilities placed in out-of-home care.
Regarding constraints of expenditures for WorkFirst and child care programs.
Regarding public disclosure of information relating to provision of child care and early learning services.
Regarding temporary assistance for needy families benefits.
Transferring certification responsibilities for chemical dependency treatment programs from the department of social and health services to the department of health.
Regarding membership of the early learning advisory council.
Authorizing implementation of a nonexpiring license for early learning providers.
Limiting the use of restraints on juveniles.
Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect.
Establishing a flexible approach to child protective services.
Requiring the department of social and health services to study alternatives to the operation of residential habilitation centers.
Concerning participation in the WorkFirst program.
Specifying that qualified grandparents are the priority placement option for children needing out-of-home care in dependency proceedings.
Concerning the rights of foster parents.
Requiring electronic benefit cards to contain a photo identification of the person authorized to use the card.
Requiring chemical dependency treatment programs certified for assessment services to use a validated assessment tool.
Concerning when a child may petition the juvenile court to reinstate the previously terminated rights of his or her parent.
Regarding constraints of expenditures for WorkFirst and child care programs.
Regarding temporary assistance for needy families benefits.
Authorizing implementation of a nonexpiring license for early learning providers.
Concerning applied behavior analyst services.
Transferring certification responsibilities for chemical dependency treatment programs from the department of social and health services to the department of health.
Concerning the discharge and relocation of residents of state facilities.
Making technical corrections to department of early learning statutes.
Clarifying the department of early learning's authority with respect to licensed child care facilities.
Regarding shared parenting placement agreements for children with disabilities placed in out-of-home care.
Requiring notification to schools regarding the release of certain offenders.
Regarding membership of the early learning advisory council.
Regarding public disclosure of information relating to provision of child care and early learning services.
Providing for child care center subsidy increases. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Ordering a departmental review of child care center subsidies. )
Making changes to juvenile court jurisdiction over offenders.
Concerning the assessment and treatment for chemical dependency.
Creating the companion animal safety, population control, and spay/neuter assistance program.
Regarding public assistance application forms.
Concerning the sealing of juvenile records.
Concerning the use of evidence-based practices for the delivery of services to children and juveniles.
Encouraging juvenile restorative justice programs.
Concerning performance-based contracting related to child welfare services.
Encouraging juvenile restorative justice programs.
Creating a juvenile gang court.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Concerning adverse childhood experiences.
Regarding licensing requirements for child care centers located in publicly owned buildings.
Restricting access to juvenile records.
Providing for extended foster care.
Requiring background checks for all child care licensees and employees.
Recognizing adopted siblings and adoptive parents as relatives.
Allowing the department of early learning and the department of social and health services to share background check information.
Concerning the department of social and health services' authority with regard to semi-secure and secure crisis residential centers and HOPE centers.
Providing for unannounced visits to homes with dependent children.
Concerning the traumatic brain injury strategic partnership.
Addressing child fatality review in child welfare cases.