Supported Decision-Making Statute, as part of the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act:
Codified at scattered sections of the Was. Rev. Code. (2020).
Link to Enacted Bill: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5604&Year=2019&Initiative=false
Further Procedural Revisions Including SDM Provisions to the Guardianship and Conservatorship Statutes:
Codified at scattered sections of the Was. Rev. Code. (2020). Link to Enacted Bill: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session Laws/Senate/6287-S.SL.pdf?q=20210322130216
SDM Assistance Program, Effective until 01/01/2022, Authorizes the public guardianship administrator is authorized to establish and administer a public guardianship, supported decision-making assistance, and estate administration program
Codified at Wash. Rev. Code § 2.72.030. Link to Washington Code: app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=2.72.030
Anti-Discrimination in Organ Transplants (includes SDM):
Codified at Wash. Rev. Code § 68.64.010 (2019). Link to Washington Code: app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=68.64.010
Link to Enacted Bill: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5405&Initiative=false&Year=2019
Description: Revises provisions and established procedures and requirements for dependent adult guardianships and conservatorships.
Status: Enacted 4/02/2020 (see chapter no 312)
Public Link: [https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=6287&Year=2019#documentSection]
S.B. 5604, 66th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Wash. 2019)
Description: Formally recognizes SDM as a less restrictive alternative to guardianship consistent with the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act.
Status: Signed by Governor on May 21, 2019. Effective date is January 1, 2021.
Public Link [app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5604&Year=2019&Initiative=false]
H.B. 1259, 66th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Wash. 2019)
Description: Would formally recognizes SDM as a less restrictive alternative to guardianship consistent with the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act.
Status: Reintroduced and retained in present status on January 13, 2020
Public Link [app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1259&Initiative=false&Year=2019]
S.B. 5405, 66th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Wash. 2019)
Description: Prohibits discrimination against people based on certain disabilities in the medical context of organ transplantation and identifies SDM services as auxiliary aids and services.
Status: Signed by Governor May 8, 2019
Public Link [app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5405&Initiative=false&Year=2019]
H.B. 1329, 66th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Wash. 2019)
Description: Incorporates additional “services that support decision-making” into the office of public guardian, including “SDM services” for adults when there is no one else qualified who is willing and able to serve. However, the definition of “Supported Decision-Making Assistance” includes acting a substitute decision-maker, e.g., representative payee, an attorney-in-fact, a trustee, or a public guardian. doesn’t sound like SDM.
Status: Signed by Governor April 30, 2019
Public Link [app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5405&Initiative=false&Year=2019]
H.B. 1139, 65th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Wash. 2017) – (Prior Bill: 2015 Bill Text WA H.B. 1839)
Description: To require the public guardianship administrator establish and administer “supported decision-making assistance” program, but the definition does not make it clear that the person is making his or her own decisions with support (e.g., the assistance includes, without limitation, acting as a representative payee, an attorney-in-fact, a trustee, and a public guardian”)
Status: Failed. Last action: 1/8/18 – To House Committee on Judiciary
Public Link [app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1139&Year=2017&BillNumber=1139&Year=2017]
S. 5447, 65th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Wash 2017) – (Prior Bill: 2015 Bill Text WA S.B. 5786)
Description: To require the public guardianship administrator establish and administer “supported decision-making assistance” program, but the definition does not make it clear that the person is making his or her own decisions with support (e.g., the assistance includes, without limitation, acting as a representative payee, an attorney-in-fact, a trustee, and a public guardian”)
Status: Failed. Passed out Senate on committee on Law and Justice on 1/11/18; indefinitely postponed by the Senate Committee on rules.
Public Link [https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5447&Year=2017&BillNumber=5447&Year=2017]
Report: 2015 Washington State WINGS Report on project to address supporting the family and friends of persons needing decisional support, improvement assessment of persons needing decisional support, and improving guardianship standards and practice. Link: naela.informz.net/NAELA/data/images/PDFs/2015%20washington%20WINGS%20final%20report%20no%20appendices.pdf