H Mental health professionals (Dead) (SSB 5580) Concerning professionals qualified to examine individuals in the mental health and substance use disorder treatment systems. Corrects a technical oversight by recognizing a designated chemical dependency specialist as one of the qualified examining professionals authorized to sign an initial fourteen-day substance use disorder detention petition during the interim period between June 28, 2016, and April 1, 2018. Allows a physician assistant working with a supervising psychiatrist to qualify as a designated crisis responder. H education program Fulfilling the state's paramount duty for all children through equitable and responsible investments in the (Dead) state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions. (SB Addresses equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to 5623) local effort contributions to fulfill the state's paramount duty for all children. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Convene a technical working group to provide recommendations for revising school district accounting practices for the purpose of improving fiscal transparency by establishing methods for separate accounting of school district expenditures made to support the state's program of basic education and those made as locally determined enrichments with local or other funding sources; and (2) Convene a work group to determine whether the funded enrollment percent for special education programs of twelve and seven-tenths should be adjusted. Establishes an accountability monitoring and reporting system as part of a continuing effort to make meaningful and substantial progress toward meeting long-term performance goals in K-12 education. S State services for children & Addressing the budgeting process for core state services for children. Requires the state institute for public policy, in consultation with the department of social and health
(Dead) (SSB 5580) Mental health professionals H Concerning professionals qualified to examine individuals in the mental health and substance use disorder treatment systems. Corrects a technical oversight by recognizing a designated chemical dependency specialist as one of the qualified examining professionals authorized to sign an initial fourteen-day substance use disorder detention petition during the interim period between June 28, 2016, and April 1, 2018. Allows a physician assistant working with a supervising psychiatrist to qualify as a designated crisis responder. (Dead) (SB 5623) education program H Fulfilling the state's paramount duty for all children through equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions. Addresses equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions to fulfill the state's paramount duty for all children. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Convene a technical working group to provide recommendations for revising school district accounting practices for the purpose of improving fiscal transparency by establishing methods for separate accounting of school district expenditures made to support the state's program of basic education and those made as locally determined enrichments with local or other funding sources; and (2) Convene a work group to determine whether the funded enrollment percent for special education programs of twelve and seven-tenths should be adjusted. Establishes an accountability monitoring and reporting system as part of a continuing effort to make meaningful and substantial progress toward meeting long-term performance goals in K-12 education. State services for children S & Addressing the budgeting process for core state services for children. Requires the state institute for public policy, in consultation with the department of social and health
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