CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2070

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 25, 1993   Yeas 95   Nays 2 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 24, 1993   Yeas 31   Nays 14

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2070 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

                              _______________________________________________

                                             SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2070

                              _______________________________________________

                                                           AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By House Committee on Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Patterson, Leonard, Brough, Shin and Karahalios)

Read first time 03/18/93.

Modifying financial responsibility for juvenile offenders.

          AN ACT Relating to financial responsibility for juvenile offenders; and amending RCW 13.40.220.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  RCW 13.40.220 and 1977 ex.s. c 291 s 76 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Whenever legal custody of a child is vested in someone other than his or her parents, after due notice to the parents or other persons legally obligated to care for and support the child, and after a hearing, the court may order and decree that the parent or other legally obligated person shall pay in such a manner as the court may direct a reasonable sum representing in whole or in part the costs of support, treatment, and confinement of the child after the decree is entered.

(2) Whenever legal custody of a child is vested in the department of social and health services, after due notice to the parents or other persons legally obligated to care for and support the child, and after a hearing, the court shall order and decree that the parent or other legally obligated person shall pay for support, treatment, and confinement of the child after the decree is entered, following the department of social and health services reimbursement of cost schedule.  The department of social and health services shall collect the debt in accordance with chapter 43.20B RCW.  The department shall exempt from payment parents receiving adoption support under RCW 74.13.100 through 74.13.145, and parents eligible to receive adoption support under RCW 74.13.150.

(3) If the parent or other legally obligated person willfully fails or refuses to pay such sum, the court may proceed against such person for contempt.

                                                           --- END ---