Within available funds appropriated for this purpose, the department shall establish, through performance-based contracts with private vendors, transitional living programs for youth who are being assisted by the department in being emancipated as part of their permanency plan under chapter 13.34 RCW. These programs shall be licensed under rules adopted by the department.
RCW 74.13.037
Findings-Short title-Intent-Construction-1996 c 133: See notes following RCW 13.32A.197.