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74.20.901 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
74.20A.010 | Purpose—Remedies additional. | Common law and statutory procedures governing the remedies for enforcement of support for financially dependent minor children by responsible parents have not proven sufficiently effective or efficient to cope with the increasing incidence of financial dependency. The increasing workload of courts, prosecuting attorney... |
74.20A.020 | Definitions. | Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, the following words and phrases as hereinafter used in this chapter and chapter 74.20 RCW shall have the following meanings: (1) "Department" means the state department of social and health services. (2) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of ... |
74.20A.030 | Department subrogated to rights for support—Enforcement actions—Certain parents exempt. | (1) The department shall be subrogated to the right of any dependent child or children or person having the care, custody, and control of said child or children, if public assistance money is paid to or for the benefit of the child, or for the care and maintenance of a child, including a child with a developmental disa... |
74.20A.035 | Augmentation of paternity establishment services. | The department of social and health services shall augment its present paternity establishment services through the hiring of additional assistant attorneys general, or contracting with prosecutors or private attorneys licensed in the state of Washington in those judicial districts experiencing delay or an accumulation... |
74.20A.040 | Notice of support debt—Service or mailing—Contents—Action on, when. | (1) The secretary may issue a notice of a support debt accrued and/or accruing based upon RCW 74.20A.030 , assignment of a support debt or a request for support enforcement services under RCW 74.20.040 (2) or (3), to enforce and collect a support debt created by a superior court order or administrative order. The payee... |
74.20A.055 | Notice and finding of financial responsibility of person required to pay support—Service—Hearing—Decisions—Rules.(Effective until April 1, 2027.) | (1) The secretary may, if there is no order that establishes a person's support obligation or specifically relieves the person required to pay support of a support obligation or pursuant to an establishment of parentage under chapter 26.26A or 26.26B RCW, serve on the person or persons required to pay support and the p... |
74.20A.056 | Notice and finding of financial responsibility pursuant to an acknowledgment of parentage—Procedure for contesting—Rules.(Effective until April 1, 2027.) | (1)(a) If an acknowledged parent has signed an acknowledgment of parentage that has been filed with the state registrar of vital statistics: (i) The division of child support may serve a notice and finding of financial responsibility under RCW 74.20A.055 based on the acknowledgment. The division of child support shall ... |
74.20A.057 | Jurisdiction over responsible parent. | A support obligation arising under the statutes or common law of this state binds the responsible parent, present in this state, regardless of the presence or residence of the custodian or children. The obligor is presumed to have been present in the state of Washington during the period for which support is sought unt... |
74.20A.059 | Modification of administrative orders establishing child support—Petition—Grounds—Procedure.(Effective until April 1, 2027.) | (1) The department, the payee under the order or the person entitled to receive support, or the person required to pay support may petition for a prospective modification of a final administrative order if: (a) The administrative order has not been superseded by a superior court order; and (b) There has been a substant... |
74.20A.060 | Assertion of lien—Effect. | (1) The secretary may assert a lien upon the real or personal property of a responsible parent: (a) When a support payment is past due, if the parent's support order contains notice that liens may be enforced against real and personal property, or notice that action may be taken under this chapter; (b) Twenty-one days ... |
74.20A.070 | Service of lien. | (1) The secretary may at any time after filing of a support lien serve a copy of the lien upon any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, or department of the state in possession of earnings, or deposits or balances held in any bank account of any nature which are due, owing, or belonging to sai... |
74.20A.080 | Order to withhold and deliver—Issuance and service—Contents—Effect—Duties of person served—Processing fee. | (1) The secretary may issue to any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, department of the state, or agency, subdivision, or instrumentality of the United States, an order to withhold and deliver property of any kind, including but not restricted to earnings which are or might become due, owing... |
74.20A.090 | Certain amount of earnings exempt from lien or order—"Earnings" and "disposable earnings" defined. | Whenever a support lien or order to withhold and deliver is served upon any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, or department of the state asserting a support debt against earnings and there is in the possession of such person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, or departm... |
74.20A.095 | Support enforcement services—Action against earnings within state—Notice. | When providing support enforcement services, the office of support enforcement may take action, under this chapter and chapter 26.23 RCW, against a responsible parent's earnings or assets, located in, or subject to the jurisdiction of, the state of Washington regardless of the presence or residence of the responsible p... |
74.20A.100 | Civil liability upon failure to comply with order or lien—Collection. | (1) Any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, or department of the state shall be liable to the department, or to the agency or firm providing child support enforcement for another state, under Title IV-D of the federal social security act and issuing a notice, garnishment, or wage assignment a... |
74.20A.110 | Release of excess to debtor. | Whenever any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision or department of the state has in its possession earnings, deposits, accounts, or balances in excess of the amount of the debt claimed by the department, such person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision or department of the sta... |
74.20A.120 | Banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions—Service on main office or branch, effect—Collection actions against community bank account, right to adjudicative proceeding. | A lien, order to withhold and deliver, or any other notice or document authorized by this chapter or chapter 26.23 RCW may be served on the main office of a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union or on a branch office of such financial institution. Service on the main office shall be effective to attach th... |
74.20A.130 | Distraint, seizure and sale of property subject to liens under RCW74.20A.060—Procedure. | Whenever a support lien has been filed pursuant to RCW 74.20A.060 , the secretary may collect the support debt stated in said lien by the distraint, seizure, and sale of the property subject to said lien. Not less than ten days prior to the date of sale, the secretary shall cause a copy of the notice of sale to be tran... |
74.20A.140 | Action for foreclosure of support lien—Satisfaction. | Whenever a support lien has been filed, an action in foreclosure of lien upon real or personal property may be brought in the superior court of the county where real or personal property is or was located and the lien was filed and judgment shall be rendered in favor of the department for the amount due, with costs, an... |
74.20A.150 | Satisfaction of lien after foreclosure proceedings instituted—Redemption. | Any person owning real property, or any interest in real property, against which a support lien has been filed and foreclosure instituted, shall have the right to pay the amount due, together with expenses of the proceedings and reasonable attorneys' fees to the secretary and upon such payment the secretary shall resto... |
74.20A.160 | Secretary may set debt payment schedule, release funds in certain hardship cases. | With respect to any arrearages on a support debt assessed under this chapter, the secretary may at any time consistent with the income, earning capacity and resources of the debtor, set or reset a level and schedule of payments to be paid upon a support debt. The secretary may, upon petition of the debtor providing suf... |
74.20A.170 | Secretary may release lien or order or return seized property—Effect. | The secretary may at any time release a support lien, or order to withhold and deliver, on all or part of the property of the debtor, or return seized property without liability, if assurance of payment is deemed adequate by the secretary, or if said action will facilitate the collection of the debt, but said release o... |
74.20A.180 | Secretary may make demand, file and serve liens, when payments appear in jeopardy. | If the secretary finds that the collection of any support debt, accrued under a support order, based upon subrogation or an authorization to enforce and collect under RCW 74.20A.030 , or assignment of, or a request for support enforcement services to enforce and collect the amount of support ordered by any support orde... |
74.20A.188 | Request for assistance on automated enforcement of interstate case—Certification required. | (1) Before the state may assist another state or jurisdiction with a high-volume automated administrative enforcement of an interstate case, the requesting state must certify that: (a) The requesting state has met all due process requirements for the establishment of the support order; (b) The requesting state has met ... |
74.20A.200 | Judicial relief after administrative remedies exhausted. | Any person against whose property a support lien has been filed or an order to withhold and deliver has been served pursuant to this chapter may apply for relief to the superior court of the county wherein the property is located. It is the intent of this chapter that jurisdictional and constitutional issues, if any, s... |
74.20A.220 | Charging off child support debts as uncollectible—Compromise—Waiver of any bar to collection. | Any support debt due the department from a responsible parent may be written off and cease to be accounted as an asset if the secretary finds there are no cost-effective means of collecting the debt. The department may accept offers of compromise of disputed claims or may grant partial or total charge-off of support ar... |
74.20A.230 | Employee debtor rights protected—Remedies. | No employer shall discharge or discipline an employee or refuse to hire a person for reason that an assignment of earnings has been presented in settlement of a support debt or that a support lien or order to withhold and deliver has been served against said employee's earnings. If an employer discharges or disciplines... |
74.20A.240 | Assignment of earnings to be honored—Effect—Income withholding forms—Processing fee. | (1) Any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, department of the state, or agency, subdivision, or instrumentality of the United States employing a person owing a support debt or obligation, shall honor, according to its terms, a duly executed assignment of earnings presented by the secretary as... |
74.20A.250 | Secretary empowered to act as attorney, endorse drafts. | Whenever the secretary has been authorized under RCW 74.20.040 to take action to establish, enforce, and collect support moneys, the custodial parent and the child or children are deemed, without the necessity of signing any document, to have appointed the secretary as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to act... |
74.20A.260 | Industrial insurance disability payments subject to collection by office of support enforcement. | Disability payments made pursuant to Title 51 RCW shall be classified as earnings and shall be subject to collection action by the office for support enforcement under this chapter and all other applicable state statutes.
[ 1987 c 435 s 34 ; 1973 1st ex.s. c 183 s 24 .]
Effective date — 1987 c 435: See RCW 26.23.900 . |
74.20A.270 | Department claim for support moneys—Notice—Answer—Adjudicative proceeding—Judicial review—Moneys not subject to claim. | (1) The secretary may issue a notice of retained support or notice to recover a support payment to any person: (a) Who is in possession of support moneys, or who has had support moneys in his or her possession at some time in the past, which support moneys were or are claimed by the department as the property of the de... |
74.20A.275 | Support payments in possession of third parties—Collection. | (1) If a person or entity not entitled to child support payments wrongfully or negligently retains child support payments owed to another or to the Washington state support registry, those payments retain their character as child support payments and may be collected by the division of child support using any remedy av... |
74.20A.280 | Department to respect privacy of recipients. | While discharging its responsibilities to enforce the support obligations of responsible parents, the department shall respect the right of privacy of recipients of public assistance and of other persons. Any inquiry about sexual activity shall be limited to that necessary to identify and locate possible fathers and to... |
74.20A.290 | Applicant for adjudicative proceeding must advise department of current address. | Whenever any person files an application for an adjudicative proceeding under RCW 74.20A.055 or 74.20A.270 , after the department has notified the person of the requirements of this section, it shall be the responsibility of the person to notify the department of the person's mailing address at the time the application... |
74.20A.300 | Medical support—Health care coverage required. | (1) Whenever a support order is entered or modified under this chapter, the department shall require either or both parents to provide medical support for any dependent child, in the nature of health care coverage or a monthly payment toward the premium, as provided under RCW 26.09.105 . (2) A parent ordered to provide... |
74.20A.310 | Federal and state cooperation—Rules—Construction. | In furtherance of the policy of the state to cooperate with the federal government in the administration of the child support enforcement program, the department may adopt such rules and regulations as may become necessary to entitle the state to participate in federal funds, unless such rules would be expressly prohib... |
74.20A.320 | License suspension—Notice of noncompliance with a child support order—License renewal and reinstatement. | (1) The department may serve upon a responsible parent a notice informing the responsible parent of the department's intent to submit the parent's name to the department of licensing and any appropriate licensing entity as a licensee who is not in compliance with a child support order. (a) If the support order establis... |
74.20A.322 | License suspension—Adjudicative proceeding. | (1) A responsible parent may request an adjudicative proceeding upon service of the notice described in RCW 74.20A.320 . The request for an adjudicative proceeding must be received by the department within twenty days of service. The request must be in writing and indicate the current mailing address and daytime phone ... |
74.20A.324 | License suspension—Certification of noncompliance. | (1) The department may certify to the department of licensing and any appropriate licensing entity the name of a responsible parent who is not in compliance with a child support order if: (a) Within twenty-one days after service of a notice issued under RCW 74.20A.320 , the responsible parent does not request an adjudi... |
74.20A.326 | License suspension—Payment schedule arrangements. | (1) If a responsible parent contacts the department's division of child support office indicated on the notice of noncompliance within twenty days of service of the notice provided in RCW 74.20A.320 and requests arrangement of a payment schedule, the department shall stay the certification of noncompliance during negot... |
74.20A.328 | License suspension—Rules. | The department may adopt rules to implement and enforce the requirements of RCW 74.20A.320 and 74.20A.322 through 74.20A.326 .
[ 2009 c 408 s 5 .] |
74.20A.330 | License suspension—Agreements between department and licensing entities—Identification of responsible parents. | (1) The department and all of the various licensing entities subject to RCW 74.20A.320 shall enter into such agreements as are necessary to carry out the requirements of the license suspension program established in RCW 74.20A.320 . (2) The department and all licensing entities subject to RCW 74.20A.320 shall compare d... |
74.20A.350 | Noncompliance—Notice—Fines—License suspension—Hearings—Rules. | (1) The division of child support may issue a notice of noncompliance to any person, firm, entity, or agency of state or federal government that the division believes is not complying with: (a) An income withholding order issued under chapter 26.23 RCW; (b) A lien, order to withhold and deliver, or assignment of earnin... |
74.20A.360 | Records access—Confidentiality—Nonliability—Penalty for noncompliance. | (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of Washington law, the division of child support, the Washington state support registry, or the agency or firm providing child support enforcement services for another state under Title IV-D of the federal social security act may access records of the following nature, in the pos... |
74.20A.370 | Financial institution data matches. | (1) Each calendar quarter financial institutions doing business in the state of Washington shall report to the department the name, record address, social security number or other taxpayer identification number, and other information determined necessary by the department for each individual who maintains an account at... |
74.20A.900 | Severability—Alternative when method of notification held invalid. | If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severabl... |
74.20A.910 | Savings clause. | The repeal of RCW 74.20A.050 and the amendment of RCW 74.20A.030 and 74.20A.250 by this 1979 act is not intended to affect any existing or accrued right, any action or proceeding already taken or instituted, any administrative action already taken, or any rule, regulation, or order already promulgated. The repeal and a... |
74.20A.920 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
74.25.040 | Volunteer work—Child care or other work—Training. | (1) Recipients of temporary assistance for needy families who are employed or participating in a work activity under *section 312 of this act may volunteer or work in a licensed child care facility. Licensed child care facilities participating in this effort shall provide care for the recipient's children and provide f... |
74.25A.005 | Legislative findings. | The legislature finds that the restructuring in the Washington economy has created rising public assistance caseloads and declining real wages for Washington workers. There is a profound need to develop partnership programs between the private and public sectors to create new jobs with adequate salaries and promotional... |
74.25A.010 | Employment partnership program—Created—Goals. | The employment partnership program is created to develop a series of geographically distributed model projects to provide permanent full-time employment for low-income and unemployed persons. The program shall be administered by the department of social and health services. The department shall contract for the program... |
74.25A.020 | Pilot projects—Grants to be used as wage subsidies—Criteria. | The secretary of the department of social and health services shall establish pilot projects that enable grants to be used as a wage subsidy. The department of social and health services shall comply with applicable federal statutes and regulations, and shall seek any waivers from the federal government necessary to op... |
74.25A.030 | Employer eligibility—Conditions. | An employer, before becoming eligible to fill a position under the employment partnership program, shall certify to the local employment partnership council that the employment, offer of employment, or work activity complies with the following conditions: (1) The conditions of work are reasonable and not in violation o... |
74.25A.040 | Diversion of grants to worker-owned businesses. | Grants may be diverted for the start-up or retention of worker-owned businesses if: (1) A feasibility study or business plan is completed on the proposed business; and (2) The project is approved by the loan committee of the *Washington state development loan fund as created by RCW 43.168.110 .
[ 1986 c 172 s 5 . Forme... |
74.25A.045 | Local employment partnership council. | A local employment partnership council shall be established in each pilot project area to assist the department of social and health services in the administration of this chapter and to allow local flexibility in dealing with the particular needs of each pilot project area. Each council shall be primarily responsible ... |
74.25A.050 | Program participants—Eligibility for assistance programs. | Participants shall be considered recipients of temporary assistance for needy families and remain eligible for medicaid benefits even if the participant does not receive a residual grant. Work supplementation participants shall be eligible for (1) the thirty-dollar plus one-third of earned income exclusion from income,... |
74.25A.060 | Program participants—Benefits and salary not to be diminished. | An applicant or recipient of aid under this chapter who participates in the employment partnership program shall be guaranteed that the value of the benefits available to him or her before entry into the program shall not be diminished. In addition, a participant employed under this chapter shall be treated in the same... |
74.25A.070 | Program participants—Classification under federal job training law. | Applicants for and recipients of aid under this chapter are "individuals in special need" of training as described in section 2 of the federal job training partnership act, 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1501 et seq., "individuals who require special assistance" as provided in section 123 of that act, and "most in need" of employment ... |
74.25A.080 | Department of social and health services to seek federal funds. | The department of social and health services shall seek any federal funds available for implementation of this chapter, including, but not limited to, funds available under Title IV of the federal social security act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.) for the job opportunities and basic skills program.
[ 1994 c 299 s 25 ; 19... |
74.25A.900 | Intent—Finding—Severability—Conflict with federal requirements—1994 c 299. | See notes following RCW 74.12.400 . |
74.26.010 | Legislative intent. | Reviser's note: RCW 74.26.010 was amended by 2020 c 274 s 66 without reference to its repeal by 2020 c 122 s 1 . It has been decodified for publication purposes under RCW 1.12.025 . |
74.29.005 | Purpose. | The purposes of this chapter are (1) to rehabilitate individuals with disabilities who have a barrier to employment so that they may prepare for and engage in a gainful occupation; (2) to provide persons with physical, mental, or sensory disabilities with a program of services which will result in greater opportunities... |
74.29.010 | Definitions. | (1) "Department" means the department of social and health services. (2) "Independence" means a reasonable degree of restoration from dependency upon others to self-direction and greater control over circumstances of one's life for personal needs and care and includes but is not limited to the ability to live in one's ... |
74.29.020 | Powers and duties of department. | Subject to available funds, and consistent with federal law and regulations the department shall: (1) Develop statewide rehabilitation programs; (2) Provide vocational rehabilitation services, independent living services, and/or job support services to individuals with disabilities or severe disabilities; (3) Disburse ... |
74.29.037 | Cooperative agreements with state and local agencies. | The department may establish cooperative agreements with other state and local agencies.
[ 2022 c 167 s 3 ; 1993 c 213 s 6 ; 1969 ex.s. c 223 s 28A.10.037 . Prior: 1967 ex.s. c 8 s 45 ; 1967 c 118 s 7 . Formerly RCW 28A.10.037 , 28.10.037 .] |
74.29.050 | Acceptance of federal aid—Generally. | The state of Washington does hereby: (1) Accept the provisions and maximum possible benefits resulting from any acts of congress which provide benefits for the purposes of this chapter; (2) Designate the state treasurer as custodian of all moneys received by the state from appropriations made by the congress of the Uni... |
74.29.055 | Acceptance of federal aid—Construction of chapter when part thereof in conflict with federal requirements which are condition precedent to allocation of federal funds. | If any part of this chapter shall be found to be in conflict with federal requirements which are a condition precedent to the allocation of federal funds to the state, such conflicting part of this chapter is hereby declared to be inoperative solely to the extent of such conflict, and such findings or determination sha... |
74.29.080 | Rehabilitation and job support services—Procedure—Register of eligible individuals and organizations. | (1) Determination of eligibility and need for rehabilitation services and determination of eligibility for job support services shall be made by the department for each individual according to its established rules, policies, procedures, and standards. (2) The department may purchase, from any source, rehabilitation se... |
74.29.090 | School to work program. | The department of social and health services shall: (1) Establish a school to work program in all counties in the state to work with all students with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are potentially eligible to receive adult support services from the developmental disabilities administration of the depa... |
74.31.005 | Findings—Intent. | The center for disease control estimates that at least five million three hundred thousand Americans, approximately two percent of the United States population, currently have a long-term or lifelong need for help to perform activities of daily living as a result of a traumatic brain injury. Each year approximately one... |
74.31.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Department" means the department of social and health services. (2) "Department of health" means the Washington state department of health created pursuant to RCW 43.70.020 . (3) "Secretary" means the secre... |
74.31.020 | Washington traumatic brain injury strategic partnership advisory council—Members—Expenses—Appointment—Duties. | (1) The Washington traumatic brain injury strategic partnership advisory council is established as an advisory council to the governor, the legislature, and the secretary of the department of social and health services. (2) The council shall be composed of: (a) The following members who shall be appointed by the govern... |
74.31.030 | Staff support—Department powers and duties—Comprehensive plan. | (1) In response to council recommendations developed pursuant to RCW 74.31.020 , the department shall include in the comprehensive statewide plan a staffing plan for providing adequate support for council activities for positions funded by the traumatic brain injury account established in RCW 74.31.060 and designate at... |
74.31.040 | Public awareness campaign. | In collaboration with the council, the department shall conduct a public awareness campaign that utilizes funding from the traumatic brain injury account to leverage a private advertising campaign to persuade Washington residents to be aware and concerned about the issues facing individuals with traumatic brain injurie... |
74.31.050 | Support group programs—Funding—Recommendations. | (1) The department shall provide funding from the traumatic brain injury account established by RCW 74.31.060 to programs that facilitate support groups to individuals with traumatic brain injuries and their families. (2) The department shall use a request for proposal process to select the programs to receive funding.... |
74.31.060 | Traumatic brain injury account. | (1) The traumatic brain injury account is created in the state treasury. The fee imposed under RCW 46.63.110 (7)(c) must be deposited into the account. Except for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium, when the treasurer shall transfer $1,111,000 to the general fund — state, moneys in the account may be spent only after approp... |
74.31.070 | Statewide response to traumatic brain injuries suffered by domestic violence survivors—Recommendations—Educational handout—Website. | (1) The department, in consultation with the council and at least one representative of a community-based domestic violence program and one medical professional with experience treating survivors of domestic violence, shall develop recommendations to improve the statewide response to traumatic brain injuries suffered b... |
74.34.005 | Findings. | The legislature finds and declares that: (1) Some adults are vulnerable and may be subjected to abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, or abandonment by a family member, care provider, or other person who has a relationship with the vulnerable adult; (2) A vulnerable adult may be home bound or otherwise unable to repr... |
74.34.020 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Abandonment" means action or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care for a vulnerable adult that leaves the vulnerable person without the means or ability to obtain necessary food, clothing, shel... |
74.34.025 | Limitation on recovery for protective services and benefits. | The cost of benefits and services provided to a vulnerable adult under this chapter with state funds only does not constitute an obligation or lien and is not recoverable from the recipient of the services or from the recipient's estate, whether by lien, adjustment, or any other means of recovery.
[ 1999 c 176 s 4 ; 19... |
74.34.035 | Reports—Mandated and permissive—Contents—Confidentiality. | (1) When there is reasonable cause to believe that abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect of a vulnerable adult has occurred, mandated reporters shall immediately report to the department. (2) When there is reason to suspect that sexual assault has occurred, mandated reporters shall immediately report t... |
74.34.040 | Reports—Contents—Identity confidential. | The reports made under *RCW 74.34.030 shall contain the following information if known: (1) Identification of the vulnerable adult; (2) The nature and extent of the suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, or abandonment; (3) Evidence of previous abuse, neglect, exploitation, or abandonment; (4) The name and address of ... |
74.34.050 | Immunity from liability. | (1) A person participating in good faith in making a report under this chapter or testifying about alleged abuse, neglect, abandonment, financial exploitation, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult in a judicial or administrative proceeding under this chapter is immune from liability resulting from the report or testim... |
74.34.053 | Failure to report—False reports—Penalties. | (1) A person who is required to make a report under this chapter and who knowingly fails to make the report is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. (2) A person who intentionally, maliciously, or in bad faith makes a false report of alleged abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect of a vulnerable adult is guilt... |
74.34.063 | Response to reports—Timing—Reports to law enforcement agencies—Notification to licensing authority. | (1) The department shall initiate a response to a report, no later than twenty-four hours after knowledge of the report, of suspected abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult. (2) When the initial report or investigation by the department indicates that the alleged aban... |
74.34.067 | Investigations—Interviews—Ongoing case planning—Agreements with tribes—Conclusion of investigation. | (1) Where appropriate, an investigation by the department may include a private interview with the vulnerable adult regarding the alleged abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, neglect, or self-neglect. (2) In conducting the investigation, the department shall interview the complainant, unless anonymous, and shall... |
74.34.068 | Investigation results—Report—Rules. | (1) After the investigation is complete, the department may provide a written report of the outcome of the investigation to an agency or program described in this subsection when the department determines from its investigation that an incident of abuse, abandonment, financial exploitation, or neglect occurred. Agencie... |
74.34.070 | Cooperative agreements for services. | The department may develop cooperative agreements with community-based agencies providing services for vulnerable adults. The agreements shall cover: (1) The appropriate roles and responsibilities of the department and community-based agencies in identifying and responding to reports of alleged abuse; (2) the provision... |
74.34.080 | Injunctions. | If access is denied to an employee of the department seeking to investigate an allegation of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect of a vulnerable adult by an individual, the department may seek an injunction to prevent interference with the investigation. The court shall issue the injunction if the de... |
74.34.090 | Data collection system—Confidentiality. | The department shall maintain a system for statistical data collection, accessible for bona fide research only as the department by rule prescribes. The identity of any person is strictly confidential.
[ 1984 c 97 s 15 .] |
74.34.095 | Confidential information—Disclosure. | (1) The following information is confidential and not subject to disclosure, except as provided in this section: (a) A report of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect made under this chapter; (b) The identity of the person making the report; and (c) All files, reports, records, communications, and work... |
74.34.110 | Protection of vulnerable adults—Petition for protective order. | A vulnerable adult, or interested person on behalf of the vulnerable adult, may seek relief from abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect, or the threat thereof, by filing a petition for a vulnerable adult protection order under chapter 7.105 RCW.
[ 2021 c 215 s 163 ; 2007 c 312 s 3 ; 1999 c 176 s 12 ; 19... |
74.34.165 | Rules. | The department may adopt rules relating to the reporting, investigation, and provision of protective services in in-home settings, consistent with the objectives of this chapter.
[ 1999 c 176 s 18 .]
Findings — Purpose — Severability — Conflict with federal requirements — 1999 c 176: See notes following RCW 74.34.005 . |
74.34.170 | Services of department discretionary—Funding. | The provision of services under RCW * 74.34.030 , 74.34.040 , 74.34.050 , and ** 74.34.100 through 74.34.160 are discretionary and the department shall not be required to expend additional funds beyond those appropriated.
[ 1986 c 187 s 10 .]
Reviser's note: *(1) RCW 74.34.030 was repealed by 1999 c 176 s 35 . **(2) RC... |
74.34.180 | Retaliation against whistleblowers and residents—Remedies—Rules. | (1) An employee or contractor who is a whistleblower and who as a result of being a whistleblower has been subjected to workplace reprisal or retaliatory action, has the remedies provided under chapter 49.60 RCW. RCW 4.24.500 through 4.24.520 , providing certain protection to persons who communicate to government agenc... |
74.34.200 | Abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect of a vulnerable adult—Cause of action for damages—Legislative intent. | (1) In addition to other remedies available under the law, a vulnerable adult who has been subjected to abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect either while residing in a facility or in the case of a person residing at home who receives care from a home health, hospice, or home care agency, or an individ... |
74.34.205 | Abandonment, abuse, or neglect—Exceptions. | (1) Any vulnerable adult who relies upon and is being provided spiritual treatment in lieu of medical treatment in accordance with the tenets and practices of a well-recognized religious denomination may not for that reason alone be considered abandoned, abused, or neglected. (2) Any vulnerable adult may not be conside... |
74.34.215 | Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. | (1) Pending an investigation by the financial institution, the department, or law enforcement, if a financial institution reasonably believes that financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult may have occurred, may have been attempted, or is being attempted, the financial institution may, but is not required to, refuse... |
74.34.220 | Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults—Training—Reporting. | (1) A financial institution shall provide training concerning the financial exploitation of vulnerable adults to the employees specified in subsection (2) of this section within one year of June 10, 2010, and shall thereafter provide such training to the new employees specified in subsection (2) of this section within ... |
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