There is a newer version of the Revised Code of Washington
2009 Washington Code
Title 71 - Mental illness
Chapter 71.34 - Mental health services for minors.
GENERAL
- 71.34.300 - Responsibility of counties for evaluation and treatment services for minors.
- 71.34.305 - Notice to parents, school contacts for referring students to inpatient treatment.
- 71.34.310 - Jurisdiction over proceedings under chapter -- Venue.
- 71.34.315 - Mental health commissioners -- Authority.
- 71.34.320 - Transfer of superior court proceedings to juvenile department.
- 71.34.325 - Court proceedings under chapter subject to rules of state supreme court.
- 71.34.330 - Attorneys appointed for minors -- Compensation.
- 71.34.335 - Court records and files confidential -- Availability.
- 71.34.340 - Information concerning treatment of minors confidential -- Disclosure -- Admissible as evidence with written consent.
- 71.34.345 - Mental health services information -- Release to department of corrections -- Rules.
- 71.34.350 - Disclosure of information or records -- Required entries in minor's clinical record.
- 71.34.355 - Rights of minors undergoing treatment -- Posting.
- 71.34.360 - No detention of minors after eighteenth birthday -- Exceptions.
- 71.34.365 - Release of minor -- Requirements.
- 71.34.370 - Antipsychotic medication and shock treatment.
- 71.34.375 - Parent-initiated treatment -- Notice to parents of available treatment options.
- 71.34.380 - Department to adopt rules to effectuate chapter.
- 71.34.385 - Uniform application of chapter -- Training for county-designated mental health professionals.
- 71.34.390 - Redirection of Title XIX funds to fund placements within the state.
- 71.34.395 - Availability of treatment does not create right to obtain public funds.
- 71.34.400 - Eligibility for medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW -- Payment by department.
- 71.34.405 - Liability for costs of minor's treatment and care -- Rules.
- 71.34.410 - Liability for performance of duties under this chapter limited.
MINOR-INITIATED TREATMENT
- 71.34.500 - Minor thirteen or older may be admitted for inpatient mental treatment without parental consent -- Professional person in charge must concur -- Written renewal of consent required.
- 71.34.510 - Notice to parents when minor admitted to inpatient treatment without parental consent.
- 71.34.520 - Minor voluntarily admitted may give notice to leave at any time.
- 71.34.530 - Age of consent -- Outpatient treatment of minors.
PARENT-INITIATED TREATMENT
- 71.34.600 - Parent may request determination whether minor has mental disorder requiring inpatient treatment -- Minor consent not required -- Duties and obligations of professional person and facility.
- 71.34.610 - Review of admission and inpatient treatment of minors -- Determination of medical necessity -- Department review -- Minor declines necessary treatment -- At-risk youth petition -- Costs -- Public funds.
- 71.34.620 - Minor may petition court for release from facility.
- 71.34.630 - Minor not released by petition under RCW 71.34.620 -- Release within thirty days -- Professional may initiate proceedings to stop release.
- 71.34.640 - Evaluation of treatment of minors.
- 71.34.650 - Parent may request determination whether minor has mental disorder requiring outpatient treatment -- Consent of minor not required -- Discharge of minor.
- 71.34.660 - Limitation on liability for admitting or accepting minor child.
INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT
- 71.34.700 - Evaluation of minor thirteen or older brought for immediate mental health services -- Temporary detention.
- 71.34.710 - Minor thirteen or older who presents likelihood of serious harm or is gravely disabled -- Transport to inpatient facility -- Petition for initial detention -- Notice of commitment hearing -- Facility to evaluate and admit or release minor.
- 71.34.720 - Examination and evaluation of minor approved for inpatient admission -- Referral to chemical dependency treatment program -- Right to communication, exception -- Evaluation and treatment period.
- 71.34.730 - Petition for fourteen-day commitment -- Requirements.
- 71.34.740 - Commitment hearing -- Requirements -- Findings by court -- Commitment -- Release.
- 71.34.750 - Petition for one hundred eighty-day commitment -- Hearing -- Requirements -- Findings by court -- Commitment order -- Release -- Successive commitments.
- 71.34.760 - Placement of minor in state evaluation and treatment facility -- Placement committee -- Facility to report to committee.
- 71.34.770 - Release of minor -- Conditional release -- Discharge.
- 71.34.780 - Minor's failure to adhere to outpatient conditions -- Deterioration of minor's functioning -- Transport to inpatient facility -- Order of apprehension and detention -- Revocation of alternative treatment or conditional release -- Hearings.
- 71.34.790 - Transportation for minors committed to state facility for one hundred eighty-day treatment.
- 71.34.795 - Transferring or moving persons from juvenile correctional institutions or facilities to evaluation and treatment facilities.
- 71.34.900 - Severability -- 1985 c 354.
- 71.34.901 - Effective date -- 1985 c 354.
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