SHB 1509: Concerning family reconciliation services.

What this bill does

Requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), subject to available funding, to offer contracts to provide community-based family reconciliation services in at least three regions served by the DCYF by January 1, 2026, and offer these contracts statewide by January 1, 2030. Expands the circumstances in which the DCYF or a designated contractor must, subject to available funding, provide family reconciliation services to a family or youth to include circumstances where the youth is: (1) in a county juvenile detention center and family conflict exists; and (2) identified through the housing stability for youth in crisis program. Expands the information that must be included in the annual report required by the DCYF regarding family reconciliation services.

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Floor votes

• House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 11, 2025
  93 yea · 2 nay · 3 not voting
• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 15, 2025
  48 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting

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