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Clarifying that court hearings under the involuntary commitment act may be conducted by video.
Creating an office of the corrections ombuds.
Increasing the availability of assisted outpatient behavioral health treatment.
Expanding the activities of the children's mental health services consultation program.
Concerning private case management of child welfare services.
Improving access to mental health services for children and youth.
Promoting the use of surplus public property for public benefit.
Concerning the handling of child forensic interview and child interview digital recordings.
Increasing the availability of housing for developmentally disabled persons.
Revising conditions under which a person is subject to exclusive adult jurisdiction and extending juvenile court jurisdiction over serious cases to age twenty-five.
Establishing the legislative-executive WorkFirst poverty reduction oversight task force.
Establishing the mental health field response teams program.
Ensuring that no youth is discharged from a public system of care into homelessness.
Concerning access to homeless housing and assistance.
Concerning diversion of juvenile offenses.
Concerning legal support for kinship caregivers.
Extending the timeline for completing a family assessment response.
Providing the list of foster parent rights and responsibilities to prospective and current foster parents.
Revising resource limitations for public assistance.
Concerning eligibility for the essential needs and housing support and the aged, blind, or disabled assistance programs.
Concerning housing authorities.
Making technical changes regarding the department of children, youth, and families.
Concerning dependency petitions where the department of social and health services is the petitioner.
Concerning the online availability of foster parent preservice training.
Allowing minors to consent to share their personally identifying information in the Washington homeless client management information system.
Concerning expansion of extended foster care eligibility.
Concerning residential custody services for tribal youth.
Modernizing substance use disorder professional practice.
Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.
Removing health coverage barriers to accessing substance use disorder treatment services.
Concerning allowing affordable housing development on religious organization property.
Concerning the release and commitment of persons involuntarily committed after the dismissal of a felony.
Establishing a criminal justice system diversion center pilot project.
Defining "willful" in the chapter regarding abuse of vulnerable adults.
Modifying the property tax exemption for property used to provide housing for eligible persons with developmental disabilities.
Concerning the exemption of property taxes for nonprofit homeownership development.
Including referred and diverted youth in establishing community juvenile accountability program guidelines.
Concerning juvenile offenses.
Concerning the addition of services for long-term placement of mental health patients in community settings that voluntarily contract to provide the services.
Concerning responses to violations of conditions of community custody related to in lieu of earned early release time.
Creating alternatives to total confinement for certain qualifying offenders with minor children.
Allowing specified offenders to earn positive achievement time on community custody.
Creating a graduated reentry program of partial confinement for certain offenders.
Concerning behavioral rehabilitation services.
Phasing out use of the valid court order exception to place youth in detention for noncriminal behavior.
Establishing the capacity to purchase community long-term involuntary psychiatric treatment services through managed care.
Concerning the legal and geographical review requirements for the conditional release of sexually violent predators to a less restrictive alternative.
Concerning families in need of services.
Concerning the handling of child forensic interview and child interview digital recordings.
Improving transition planning for students in special education who meet criteria for services from the developmental disabilities administration.
Issuing an identicard for offenders released from prison facilities.
Concerning the processes for reviewing sexually violent predators committed under chapter 71.09 RCW.
Concerning certain procedures upon initial detention under the involuntary treatment act.
Providing local governments with options to preserve affordable housing in their communities.
Revising conditions under which juvenile court records may be sealed.
Concerning the issuance of identicards to individuals released from certain juvenile rehabilitation facilities.
Defining "willful" in the chapter regarding abuse of vulnerable adults.
Concerning eligibility for the essential needs and housing support and the aged, blind, or disabled assistance programs.
Concerning affordable housing policy.
Improving access to mental health services for children and youth.
Providing postsecondary education to enhance education opportunities and public safety.
Establishing a criminal justice system diversion center pilot project.
Ensuring access to community-based services for developmentally disabled citizens currently served by the developmental disabilities administration.
Concerning temporary homeless housing by religious organizations.
Concerning suspension of the evaluation, detention, and commitment of persons with a substance use disorder when secure detoxification facility beds are not available.
Implementing child support pass-through payments.
Modifying eligibility and benefits under certain economic services programs.
Providing public assistance to certain victims of human trafficking.
Creating a director of homelessness for certain counties.
Creating an office of the corrections ombuds.
Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.
Standardizing practices relating to the commitment and release of persons committed to a state institution after committing acts of felony violence.
Encouraging transparency within the department of social and health services.
Concerning the use of independent contractors to address delays in providing forensic competency evaluations.
Creating an apprenticeship program for inmates.
Concerning removal of juvenile convictions or adjudications from sexually violent predator status under RCW 71.09.030.
Concerning the goal of ending homelessness.
Concerning limiting and clarifying the legal requirements for the conditional release of sexually violent predators to a less restrictive environment.
Concerning assessment of the needs of girls and young women concurrently involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems.
Repealing a tax preference for prescription drug warehousing firms to invest in rural and high-need area opioid use disorder treatment and support infrastructures.
Concerning disclosure of health-related information with persons with a close relationship with a patient.
Concerning the appointment of counsel for youth in dependency court proceedings.
Streamlining foster care licensing.
Concerning petitions for review of involuntary commitment decisions filed by an immediate family member, guardian, or conservator.
Allowing minors to consent to share their personally identifying information in the Washington homeless client management information system.
Providing flexibility to school districts to reduce costs related to compliance with truancy laws.
Concerning the revision of exclusive adult jurisdiction.
Allowing minors to consent to share their personally identifying information in the Washington homeless client management information system.
Concerning the provision of funding and services to address homelessness.
Expanding use of the involuntary treatment act to combat heroin abuse.
Providing notification to parents when a minor accesses behavioral health services.
Concerning the goal of ending homelessness.
Concerning the sealing of juvenile records.
Providing support for foster youth in obtaining drivers' licenses and automobile liability insurance.
Including referred and diverted youth in establishing community juvenile accountability program guidelines.
Concerning state purchasing of mental health and chemical dependency treatment services.
Concerning access to juvenile records.
Concerning access to juvenile records.
Concerning parents with intellectual or developmental disabilities involved in dependency proceedings.
Concerning the arrest of individuals who suffer from chemical dependency.
Requiring evidence-based and research-based interventions for juvenile firearm offenders in certain circumstances.
Concerning statements made by juveniles during assessments or screenings for mental health or chemical dependency treatment.
Concerning persons sentenced for offenses committed prior to reaching eighteen years of age.
Concerning representation of children in dependency matters.
Concerning statements made by juveniles during assessments or screenings for mental health or chemical dependency treatment.
Concerning income eligibility for temporary assistance for needy families benefits for a child.
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 background checks for persons with whom dependent children are placed.
Modifying community custody conditions for sex offenders.
Concerning the expiration of the advisory committee on the disproportionate representation of children of color in Washington's child welfare system.
Clarifying legal financial obligation provisions.
Concerning state purchasing of mental health and chemical dependency treatment services.
Concerning court review of involuntary treatment decisions.
Concerning filing a petition seeking termination of parental rights.
Providing caregivers authority to allow children placed in their care to participate in normal childhood activities based on a reasonable and prudent parent standard.
Addressing the implementation of inmate postsecondary education degree programs to reduce recidivism.
Identifying characteristics of the homeless youth population.
Concerning review of licensing, unsupervised access to children, and employment decisions by the children's administration.
Creating the pilot identicard program.
Concerning placement of sixteen and seventeen year olds arrested for domestic violence assault.
Concerning department of early learning fatality reviews.
Concerning surname changes after the solemnization of a marriage.
Improving the adoption process.
Expanding the categories of offenses eligible for the parenting program with the department of corrections.
Concerning the termination of basic food benefits to incarcerated persons.
Concerning child care subsidies and child support enforcement services.
Authorizing the use of jail data for research purposes in the public interest.
Protecting state hospital workers.
Concerning sexually violent predators.
Improving the adoption process.
Concerning involuntary medication for maintaining the level of restoration in jail.
Concerning compliance with inspections of child care facilities.
Requesting Congress to amend the Communications Decency Act.
Requiring photo identification on electronic benefit cards.
Concerning involuntary medication for maintaining the level of restoration in jail.
Concerning residence locations of felony sex offenders of minors.
Concerning compliance with inspections of child care facilities.
Requiring the department of corrections to supervise domestic violence offenders who have a conviction and were sentenced for a domestic violence felony offense that was plead and proven.
Concerning review of licensing and employment decisions by the children's administration.
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.
Limiting use of public assistance benefits.
Concerning contracts for health care services for incarcerated offenders.
Addressing access to original birth certificates after adoption finalization.
Forming the juvenile sentencing task force to review and make recommendations regarding juvenile sentencing matters.
Concerning income eligibility for temporary assistance for needy families benefits for a child.
Concerning the arrest of individuals who suffer from chemical dependency.
Regarding the withholding of medical treatment in favor of faith-based or metaphysical healing efforts.
Concerning registered sex or kidnapping offenders.
Concerning registered sex or kidnapping offenders.
Concerning the testing of infants placed in out-of-home care whose human immunodeficiency virus is unknown.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Modifying provisions regarding the representation of children in dependency matters.
Concerning court review of involuntary treatment decisions.
Funding recovery programs for persons with mental illness and chemical dependency disorders.
Creating an office of corrections ombuds.
Modifying drug offender sentencing alternatives.
Concerning child abuse investigations.
Addressing the implementation of inmate postsecondary education degree programs to reduce recidivism.
Addressing parent and child relationship termination.
Concerning the expiration of the advisory committee on the disproportionate representation of children of color in Washington's child welfare system.
Allowing youthful offenders who complete their sentences prior to age twenty-one equal access to a full continuum of rehabilitative and reentry services.
Modifying stalking and harassment protection order provisions.
Exempting personal information relating to children from public inspection and copying.
Addressing criminal incompetency and civil commitment.
Ordering the caseload forecast council to publish sentencing information concerning racial disproportionality.
Allowing the department of social and health services to withhold, restrict, or suspend licenses of individuals not in compliance with a child support order.
Concerning access to juvenile records.
Concerning statements made by juveniles during assessments or screenings for mental health or chemical dependency treatment.
Concerning interviewing children in child protective services investigations at children's advocacy centers.
Concerning access to juvenile records.
Concerning statements made by juveniles during assessments or screenings for mental health or chemical dependency treatment.
Concerning surname changes after the solemnization of a marriage.
Concerning small estate guardian reporting intervals and training reporting requirements.
Concerning the availability of juvenile offender court records.
Concerning placement of a defendant determined to be incompetent.
Concerning child support.
Creating the office of the behavioral health ombuds.
Requesting a comprehensive review of staff safety at the department of corrections.
Concerning placement of certain juveniles arrested for nonfelonious domestic violence.
Modifying the requirements for purchase of care for Indian children.
Standards for detention of persons with mental disorders or chemical dependency.
Allowing the department of corrections to exempt information contained in the internal database on security threat group data from dissemination under the public records act.
Improving behavioral health services provided to adults in Washington state.
Concerning competency to stand trial evaluations.
Modifying criminal history record information compliance audit provisions.
Accelerating changes to mental health involuntary commitment laws.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Concerning visitation rights for persons, including grandparents, with an ongoing and substantial relationship with a child.
Concerning child care reform.
Concerning sibling visitation after a dependency has been dismissed or concluded.
Concerning the children of family day care providers.
Concerning sibling visitation for children in foster care.
Concerning notification to school districts of substantiated concerns of child abuse or neglect.
Concerning outpatient commitment.
Concerning the placement of children with relatives.
Concerning the right to jury trial in termination actions.
Concerning relatives in dependency proceedings.
Developing a risk assessment instrument for patients committed for involuntary treatment in Washington state.
Concerning social worker licensing.
Concerning access to juvenile records.
Concerning exemptions from the five-year time limit for recipients of the temporary assistance for needy families program.
Concerning the definition of work activity for the purposes of the WorkFirst program.
Concerning service of petitions for release by persons committed as criminally insane.
Increasing public awareness of mental illness and its consequences.
Concerning interviewing children in child protective services investigations at children's advocacy centers.
Requiring drug testing for recipients of benefits under the temporary assistance for needy families program.
Improving child support collections by requiring reporting of compensation and establishing an intercept program.
Measuring performance of the child welfare system.
Modifying provisions regarding the representation of children in dependency matters.
Creating a licensing category for receiving care centers.
Concerning the rights of parents who are incarcerated or in residential substance abuse treatment.
Providing a minimum term sentence for certain persistent offenders.
Providing partial and total confinement options for offenders.
Concerning the introduction of contraband into or possession of contraband in a secure facility.
Concerning the ability of the department of social and health services, the department of early learning, and the health care authority to establish and enforce debts against vendors who attempt to avoid responsibility for satisfying overpayment debts by creating new entities.
Concerning the enforcement powers of the office of financial recovery.
Allowing residents of total confinement facilities and secure community transition facilities to engage in therapeutic occupational assignments within the confines of McNeil Island.
Establishing outcome measures for the community mental health service delivery system.
Providing mental health first-aid training to teachers and educational staff.
Concerning juvenile firearms and weapons crimes.
Requiring an empirical study of the validity and reliability of the current child welfare safety assessment tool.
Improving behavioral health services provided to adults in Washington state.
Adding children victims of trafficking to the definition of abuse and neglect.
Concerning sexual assault protection orders.
Requiring that child protective service workers be licensed as social workers and bonded.
Implementing a recommendation of the sunshine committee.
Creating an office of corrections ombuds.
Authorizing criminal defendants to plead "guilty and mentally ill."
Creating a task force to examine reform of the mental health system.
Limiting alternatives to confinement for certain offenders who violate terms of community custody.
Concerning patient and staff safety at state hospitals.
Concerning the definition of community mental health service delivery system.
Regulating provision of child care.
Concerning birth certificates and other birth-related information.
Concerning the adult behavioral health system in Washington state.
Concerning child care reform.
Accelerating changes to mental health involuntary commitment laws.
Concerning detentions under the involuntary treatment act.
Concerning extended foster care services.
Concerning sibling visitation for children in foster care.
Addressing criminal incompetency and civil commitment. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Addressing criminal incompetency, civil commitment, and commitments based on criminal insanity. )
Allowing the department of corrections to exempt information contained in the internal database on security threat group data from dissemination under the public records act. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning security threat group information. )
Facilitating treatment for persons with co-occurring disorders by requiring development of an integrated rule.
Concerning competency to stand trial evaluations.
Concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect by supervised persons.
Asserting conditions under which the department of corrections provides rental vouchers to a registered sex offender. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Asserting conditions under which the department of corrections provides rental vouchers to an offender. )
Implementing the recommendations made by the Powell fatality team.
Establishing the commercially sexually exploited children statewide coordinating committee.
Exempting personal information relating to children from public inspection and copying.
Concerning transfers of clients between regional support networks.
Measuring performance of the child welfare system.
Concerning good cause exceptions during permanency hearings.
Creating a statewide database of mental health commitment information.
Requiring notification of release of a person following dismissal of charges based on incompetence to stand trial.
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.
Protecting public employees who act ethically and legally.
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.
Modifying stalking and harassment protection order provisions.
Concerning sexual assault protection orders.
Concerning social worker licensing.
Concerning the introduction of contraband into or possession of contraband in a secure facility.
Modifying criminal history record information compliance audit provisions.
Adopting a model policy to require a third person to be present during interviews.
Modifying the requirements for purchase of care for Indian children.
Concerning juveniles and runaway children.
Modifying community supervision provisions.
Addressing juvenile court quality assurance services.
Concerning background information of certain guardians ad litem.
Requiring that child protective service workers be licensed as social workers and bonded.
Creating a child welfare transparency committee.
Splitting the department of social and health services into several smaller, more focused agencies.
Relating to prohibiting a child custody award to a suspect in an active murder investigation.
Granting extraordinary medical placement to offenders under certain conditions.
Adopting a model policy to require a third person to be present during interviews.
Creating a sentence for treatment program for juvenile offenders.
Concerning health care services for incarcerated offenders.
Delaying elimination of the family policy council and the council for children and families.
Concerning guardian reporting requirements for certain small estates.
Concerning court procedures for review of petitions for protection orders.
Asserting that submission of DNA markers to a database be accessible only to qualified laboratory personnel.
Concerning determination of income and resources for the purposes of eligibility for public assistance.
Collecting biological samples for DNA analysis from illegal aliens.
Concerning expenditures of the WorkFirst program.
Improving protections for incapacitated adults.
Providing transitional reentry housing through the department of corrections.
Creating the crime victims' services account.
Regarding shared parental responsibility.
Regarding cost savings and efficiencies in mailing notices of possible license suspension for noncompliance with child support orders.
Limiting the use of restraints on juveniles.
Making juvenile records confidential.
Concerning the sealing of juvenile records.
Concerning the involuntary medication of persons committed as criminally insane.
Concerning employer reporting to the state support registry.
Regarding adoptees' access to information, including original birth certificates.
Concerning the use of evidence-based practices for the delivery of services to children and juveniles.
Requiring notification of release of a person following dismissal of charges based on incompetence to stand trial.
Regarding school attendance of children whose parents or guardians receive state assistance.
Concerning worker safety at state hospitals.
Concerning firearm background check databases.
Encouraging juvenile restorative justice programs.
Reviewing discharges from state hospitals.
Limiting liability for specified state workers for errors of judgment.
Streamlining competency evaluation and competency restoration procedures.
Modifying requirements for certain mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.
Concerning the privacy of nonconviction records.
Addressing collections on legal financial obligations.
Creating the office of program integrity.
Addressing the terms of supervision for offenders sentenced to a first time offender waiver.
Reducing prison sentences in order to generate correctional cost savings and invest in evidence-based programming.
Concerning participation in the WorkFirst program.
Concerning adverse childhood experiences.
Increasing fee assessments for prostitution crimes.
Concerning language access provider services for certain medicare patients and public assistance applicants and recipients.
Concerning crime-related boards and commissions.
Encouraging juvenile restorative justice programs.
Concerning consumer reports of employees or volunteers who will or may have unsupervised access to children, individuals with developmental disabilities, or vulnerable adults.
Regarding background check clearance for licensed and regulated child care facilities.
Concerning when a child may petition the juvenile court to reinstate the previously terminated rights of his or her parent.
Recognizing adopted siblings and adoptive parents as relatives.
Concerning background checks of peer counselors for the purposes of access to children or vulnerable adults.
Allowing for informed telephonic consent for access to housing or homelessness services.
Concerning applied behavior analyst services.
Revising public assistance provisions.
Concerning firearm background check databases.
Limiting liability for specified state workers for errors of judgment.
Regulating dissemination of juvenile records by consumer reporting agencies.
Providing for an automatic stay of any order terminating parental rights.
Regarding shared parenting placement agreements for children with disabilities placed in out-of-home care.
Concerning county use of moneys collected from certain county sales and use taxes.
Modifying provisions relating to orders of disposition for juveniles.
Directing creation of an electronic benefit transfer system for the delivery of subsidized child care.
Addressing court-ordered legal financial obligations collected by the county clerks.
Addressing police investigations of commercial sexual exploitation of children and human trafficking.
Requiring that child protective service workers be licensed as social workers and bonded.
Establishing a claims process for persons convicted and imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
Allowing the department of early learning and the department of social and health services to share background check information.
Requiring background investigations for peace officers and reserve officers as a condition of employment.
Providing for unannounced visits to homes with dependent children.
Prohibiting certain registered sex offenders from entering school grounds.
Implementing an audit program for working connections child care providers.
Limiting the use of public assistance electronic benefit cards.
Requiring verification of eligibility for public assistance.
Creating a division of special investigations within the office of the state auditor.
Concerning shared parenting and its impact on youth school dropout and crime prevention.
Requiring the temporary assistance for needy families grant to be dispensed as an electronic voucher benefit and limited to purposes benefiting children.
Providing for extended foster care.
Providing for child care center subsidy increases.
Addressing access to original birth certificates after adoption finalization.
Allowing the department of corrections to deport criminal illegal immigrant offenders serving a sentence.
Creating a claim for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
Streamlining competency evaluation and competency restoration procedures.
Reviewing discharges from state hospitals.
Concerning expenditures for works of art.
Authorizing criminal defendants to plead "guilty and mentally ill."
Concerning the inspection or copying of nonexempt public records by persons incarcerated.
Requiring adult family homes and boarding homes to provide notice of registered sex offenders and kidnapping offenders.
Authorizing community custody after fifteen years for specified persistent offenders.
Addressing child fatality review in child welfare cases.
Concerning the privacy of nonconviction records.
Concerning triage facilities.
Authorizing civil judgments for assault.
Placing restrictions on legal claims initiated by persons serving criminal sentences in correctional facilities.
Providing for family assessments in cases involving child abuse or neglect.
Addressing sexually violent predator civil commitment cases.
Authorizing waivers from certain DSHS overpayment recovery efforts.
Improving timeliness, efficiency, and accountability of forensic resource utilization associated with competency to stand trial.
Enacting measures to reduce public assistance fraud.
Concerning authorization periods for subsidized child care.
Improving truancy procedures by changing the applicability of mandatory truancy petition filing provisions to children under seventeen years of age, requiring initial petitions to contain information about the child's academic status, prohibiting issuance of a bench warrant at an initial truancy status hearing, and modifying school district reporting requirements after the court assumes jurisdiction in a truancy case.
Modifying background check provisions.
Modifying provisions relating to orders of disposition for juveniles.
Requiring juvenile detention intake standards for juveniles who are developmentally disabled.
Creating a retired active license for mental health professionals.
Repealing the early supplemental security income transition project.
Extending mandatory child abuse reporting requirements to specified employees of institutions of higher education.
Regarding criminal identification system information for entities providing emergency shelter, interim housing, or transitional housing.
Updating the administration of the sexual assault grant programs.
Preventing predatory guardianships of incapacitated adults.
Preventing predatory guardianships of incapacitated adults.
Regarding sexually violent predators.
Concerning the use of moneys collected from the local option sales tax to support chemical dependency or mental health treatment programs and therapeutic courts.
Streamlining the crime victims' compensation program.
Reimbursing counties for providing judicial services involving mental health commitments.
Concerning juveniles who have been adjudicated of a sex offense.
Improving the administration and efficiency of sex and kidnapping offender registration.
Creating a state Indian child welfare act.
Authorizing implementation of a nonexpiring license for early learning providers.
Addressing unlicensed child care.
Regarding communication, collaboration, and expedited medicaid attainment concerning persons with mental health or chemical dependency disorders who are confined in a state institution.
Concerning the accountability of mental health professionals employed by an evaluation and treatment facility for communicating with a parent or guardian about the option of parent-initiated mental health treatment.
Concerning juveniles with developmental disabilities who are in correctional detention centers, juvenile correction institutions or facilities, and jails.
Concerning making requests by or on behalf of an inmate under the public records act ineligible for penalties.
Requiring notification to schools regarding the release of certain offenders.
Encouraging the reduction of recidivism by modifying legal financial obligation provisions.
Changing provisions involving domestic violence fatality review panels.
Regarding providing eyeglasses to medicaid enrollees.
Authorizing the use of short-term, on-site child care for the children of facility employees.
Addressing the conditional release of persons committed as criminally insane to their county of origin.
Protecting consumers by assuring persons using the title of social worker have graduated with a degree in social work from an educational program accredited by the council on social work education.
Containing costs for services to sexually violent predators.
Limiting the reasons for which a manifest injustice disposition may be imposed upon a juvenile offender.
Concerning child welfare services.
Revising provisions relating to sex crimes involving minors.
Addressing the burdens of proof required in dependency matters affecting Indian children.
Concerning the assessment and treatment of certain persons with mental illnesses. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Improving procedures relating to the commitment of persons found not guilty by reason of insanity. )
Suspending the parole or probation of an offender who is charged with a new felony offense in certain conditions.
Modifying sex offender registration provisions.
Exempting a person's identifying information from public disclosure when submitted in the course of using the sex offender notification and registration program for the purpose of receiving notification regarding registered sex offenders.
Creating alternatives to total confinement for nonviolent offenders with minor children.
Controlling computer access by residents of the special commitment center.
Restricting access to juvenile offender records.
Expanding provisions relating to vulnerable adults.
Providing for modification of the disposition concerning restitution in juvenile cases.
Concerning local government crime-free rental housing programs.
Reducing crime victims' compensation benefits and eligibility.
Concerning inmate savings accounts.
Requiring that child protective service workers be licensed as social workers and bonded.
Revising standards for investigations of child abuse or neglect.
Protecting the rights of individuals with mental disorders.
Concerning the involuntary treatment act.
Allocating responsibility for court-related costs of involuntary commitment proceedings.
Concerning administrative review of public assistance decisions.
Waiving the imposition of legal financial obligations in certain circumstances.
Encouraging the need for representation of children in dependency matters.
Addressing youth school dropout reduction and crime prevention.
Concerning general assistance and medical care services.
Changing the definition of criminal act for crime victims compensation purposes.
Changing escape or disappearance notification requirements.
Authorizing counties to impose local sales and use taxes for criminal justice purposes.
Updating provisions concerning the modification, review, and adjustment of child support orders to improve access to justice and to ensure compliance with federal requirements.
Concerning expenditures for works of art.
Concerning child fatality reviews in child welfare cases.
Facilitating treatment for behavioral health disorders.
Imposing a sanction for offenders who violate sentence conditions by committing an assault against a law enforcement officer, employee of a law enforcement agency, or department of corrections employee.
Providing for the establishment of the psychiatric security review board to supervise persons acquitted by reason of insanity.
Amending the Constitution concerning parental rights.
Authorizing civil judgements for assault.
Planning for the discontinuation of discharge of vulnerable populations from state institutions into homelessness.
Limiting the use of restraints on pregnant women or youth.
Addressing the period of time during which a licensed overnight youth shelter, or an organization whose stated mission is to provide services to homeless or runaway youth and their families, must provide notification to parents of runaway youth.
Concerning the placement of children with relatives.
Revising juvenile offender sentencing standards for vehicular homicide.
Filling vacancies on the racial disproportionality advisory committee.
Defining child advocacy centers for the multidisciplinary investigation of child abuse and implementation of county protocols.
Establishing a program to verify the address of registered sex offenders and kidnapping offenders.
Concerning the calculation of child support.
Authorizing special detention facilities.
Providing protection for vulnerable adults when domestic violence temporary ex parte protection orders are requested and issued.
Addressing the coordination between local law enforcement and the department of corrections.
Limiting alternatives to confinement for certain offenders who violate terms of community custody.
Concerning criminal defendants who are guilty and mentally ill.
Addressing disclosure of adoption information.
Providing transitional housing for persons at risk of experiencing homelessness.
Providing notice of release from involuntary treatment.
Changing provisions relating to truancy petition compliance.
Concerning secure housing for sex offenders.
Changing provisions relating to sex offenders.
Requiring the department of social and health services to include in its foster parent training program a section to address the needs of children with autism.
Creating a sentence for treatment program for juvenile offenders.
Allocating responsibility for court-related costs related to certain civil commitment proceedings under chapter 71.05 RCW.
Reorganizing the provision of family and children's services.
Specifying that qualified grandparents are the priority placement option for children needing out-of-home care in dependency proceedings.
Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.
Addressing visitation by caregivers in dependency matters.
Concerning consumer reports of employees or volunteers who will or may have unsupervised access to children, individuals with developmental disabilities, or vulnerable adults.
Requiring performance-based contracts for the provision of child welfare services.
Creating a review panel for day care facility licensing concerns.
Providing certain procedures for tenants who are victims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking.
Establishing a pilot program for family counseling.
Concerning permanent parenting plans that are agreed to or entered into by default.
Making changes to the adoption support program.
Requiring notification of the duties and responsibilities of the department of social and health services to dependent children.
Clarifying certain community custody and drug offender sentencing alternative sentencing provisions.
Allowing the department of corrections to rely upon jail certification in the calculation of release dates for offenders.
Including domestic violence court order violations to the list of offenses eligible for notification.
Establishing search and arrest authority provisions of offenders by department of corrections personnel.
Concerning background information of certain guardians ad litem.
Establishing standards for visitation rights for grandparents.
Splitting the department of social and health services into several smaller, more focused agencies.
Expanding provisions relating to vulnerable adults.
Creating a child welfare transparency committee.
Concerning the approval of sex offender residences.
Regulating public access to information about foster parents.
Concerning facilities to house sexually violent predators.
Revising the documentation necessary to challenge acknowledgment of paternity.
Concerning legal representation of children in dependency proceedings.
Concerning medical support obligations.
Concerning standard forms for dependency matters.
Reforming competency evaluation and restoration procedures.
Regarding parental or guardian access to juvenile records.
Providing visitation rights for grandparents.
Changing the definition of a juvenile.
Concerning the transfer of juveniles to adult court.
Creating the new crime of abandonment of a dependent person in the fourth degree.
Allowing crime victims to submit input to the department of corrections regarding an offender's placement in work release.
Concerning evidence-based community custody.
Concerning permissible uses of moneys collected under the sales and use tax for chemical dependency or mental health treatment services or therapeutic courts.
Extending authority to supervise offenders based on risk assessments.
Regarding the designation of residential time in parenting plans.
Concerning criminal defendants who are guilty and mentally ill.
Regarding housing services and assistance in dependency and termination matters.
Modifying parenting plans based on the military service of a parent.
Addressing the rights of victims, survivors, and witnesses of crimes.
Creating a legislative task force to address housing for individuals at a high risk of being homeless.
Concerning expenditures for works of art.
Regarding the designation of "social worker."
Controlling computer access by residents at the special commitment center and persons released to less restrictive alternatives.
Concerning counseling for witnesses in civil commitment proceedings under chapter 71.09 RCW.
Addressing parenting plans and residential schedules in dependency proceedings.
Improving education and employment opportunities for individuals with criminal convictions.
Creating a pilot program to increase family participation in juvenile offender programs.
Allowing a certificate of discharge to be issued when an existing order excludes or prohibits an offender from having contact with a specified person or business, or coming within a set distance of any specified location.
Concerning unattended children in motor vehicles.
Allowing the Washington center for court research and the office of public defense to access juvenile case records.
Expanding provisions relating to the collection of biological samples for DNA identification analysis.
Concerning the exemption of the special commitment center under the public records act. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning exempting special commitment center and private detention facility security information from public disclosure. )
Requesting the Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision immediately initiate its emergency rule-making process.
Concerning child welfare.
Concerning relatives in dependency proceedings.
Making technical nonsubstantive corrections to the initial point of contact program established in chapter 496, Laws of 2007.
Defining "principal residence" for the purpose of relocation of a child.
Regarding exemptions from the WorkFirst program.
Concerning the placement of foster children.
Regarding notification in dependency matters.
Regarding placement of a child returning to out-of-home care.
Revising procedures for appointment of guardians ad litem.
Modifying sentencing provisions for juveniles adjudicated of certain crimes.
Concerning rental vouchers to allow release from state institutions.
Concerning the commitment of sexually violent predators.
Addressing correctional facility policies regarding medication management.
Modifying the child support license suspension program.
Reducing the categories of offenders supervised by the department of corrections.
Adding additional appropriate locations for the transfer of newborn children.
Changing provisions involving truancy.
Ordering an evaluation of recommendations made by the racial disproportionality advisory committee.
Modifying juvenile sex and kidnapping offender registration provisions.
Concerning foster parent licensing.
Addressing applications for public assistance from persons currently ineligible to receive assistance.
Authorizing the Washington state department of corrections to develop training for corrections personnel.
Creating an electronic statewide unified sex offender registry program.
Making technical corrections to community custody provisions.
Concerning crisis referral services for criminal justice and correctional personnel.
Regarding prisoner access to public records.