2023 Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.88 - State Budgeting, Accounting, and Reporting System.
43.88.058 - Maintenance level costs—Services for children.
RCW 43.88.058
Maintenance level costs—Services for children.
For the purposes of this chapter, expenditures for the following services must be forecasted and budgeted as maintenance level costs:
(1) Behavioral rehabilitation services placements;
(2) Social worker and related staff to receive, refer, and respond to screened-in reports of child abuse or neglect;
(3) Court-ordered parent-child and sibling visitations delivered by contractors;
(4) Those activities currently being treated as maintenance level costs for budgeting or forecasting purposes on June 7, 2018, including, but not limited to: (a) Adoption support and other adoption-related expenses; (b) foster care maintenance payments; (c) child-placing agency management fees; (d) support goods such as clothing vouchers; (e) child aides; and (f) child care for children in foster or relative placements when the caregiver is at work or in school; and
(5) Developmental disability waiver slots that are anticipated to be utilized by individuals eligible for a medicaid waiver service under RCW 71A.12.370.
[ 2023 c 345 § 2; 2021 c 334 § 1904; 2018 c 208 § 5.]
NOTES:
Conflict with federal requirements—Effective date—2021 c 334: See notes following RCW 43.79.555.
