RCW 43.20A.635
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It shall be the duty of the secretary of social and health services and he or she shall have the power to establish and administer a program of services for children with disabilities or who are suffering from physical conditions which lead to disabilities, which shall provide for developing, extending, and improving services for locating such children, and for providing for medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare; to supervise the administration of those services, included in the program, which are not administered directly by it; to extend and improve any such services, including those in existence on April 1, 1941; to cooperate with medical, health, nursing, and welfare groups and organizations, and with any agency of the state charged with the administration of laws providing for vocational rehabilitation of children with physical disabilities; to cooperate with the federal government, through its appropriate agency or instrumentality in developing, extending, and improving such services; and to receive and expend all funds made available to the department by the federal government, the state or its political subdivisions or from other sources, for such purposes.
[ 2020 c 274 s 21 ; 2009 c 549 s 5079 ; 1979 c 141 s 52 ; 1965 c 8 s 43.20.130 . Prior: 1941 c 129 s 1 ; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 9992-107a; prior: 1937 c 114 s 7 . Formerly RCW 74.12.210 ; 43.20.130.]
Notes:
Center for research and training in intellectual and developmental disabilities, assistant secretaries as members of advisory committee: RCW 28B.20.412 .
Children with disabilities, copy of commitment order transmitted to department: RCW 26.40.060 .