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Sec. 47.80.160. Transportation. When an individual is to be treated under this chapter, the department shall arrange, upon the request of a person having a proper interest in the individual's treatment, and may pay for the individual's transportation to the designated facility, with appropriate medical or nursing attendants and by the available means that are appropriate and suitable. The department may pay return transportation of an individual and appropriate medical and nursing attendants. When practicable, one or more relatives or friends of the individual to be treated shall be permitted to accompany the individual. The department may pay necessary travel, housing, and meal expenses incurred by one relative or friend in accompanying the individual to the facility if the department determines (1) that the best interests of the individual's health require that the individual be accompanied by the relative or friend; (2) the relative or friend accompanying the individual is indigent. Sec. 47.80.170. Provision for personal needs upon discharge. The department shall make arrangements which are necessary to ensure that (1) no patient is discharged or placed on convalescent status from a designated facility without suitable clothing; and (2) an indigent patient discharged or placed on convalescent status is furnished suitable transportation to the patient's permanent residence in this state or other suitable place at the discretion of the department, and a reasonable amount of money to meet immediate needs. Secs. 47.80.200 — 47.80.290. Self-sufficiency trust fund. [Repealed, § 12 ch 42 SLA 1997.] Article 3. Teachers Who Teach the Use of Certain Aids or Devices for the Blind or Visually Impaired. Sec. 47.80.400. Qualifications for teaching the use of certain aids or devices for the blind or visually impaired. (a) A person who is employed to teach the use of orientation and mobility aids or assistive technology devices to students who are 16 years of age or older and who are blind or visually impaired may not receive payment from the state or a political subdivision of the state unless the person meets the training and experience requirements established by the department under this section. (b) The department shall, by regulation, establish minimum requirements for training and experience of persons who teach the use of orientation and mobility aids or assistive technology devices to students who are 16 years of age or older and who are blind or visually impaired. The department shall consider the standards adopted by national organizations that provide services to the blind and visually impaired when setting requirements under this section. Article 4. Traumatic or Acquired Brain Injury.