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;(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.Amended by 2023 c 345,§ 2, eff. 7/23/2023.Amended by 2021 c 334,§ 1904, eff. 5/18/2021.Conflict with federal requirements-Effective date- 2021 c 334: See notes following RCW 43.79.555.