PERMANENT RULES
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Economic Services Administration)
Date of Adoption: June 13, 2000.
Purpose: WAC 388-424-0025 Citizenship and alien status -- Eligibility requirements for the food assistance program for legal immigrants, this amendment will expand eligibility for state-funded food assistance to aliens who are PRUCOL (permanently residing under color of law).
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 388-424-0025.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 74.08A.120.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 00-09-082 on April 18, 2000.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
June 13, 2000
Marie Myerchin-Redifer
Manager
2712.4
To receive benefits under the food assistance
program (FAP) for legal immigrants (((FAP), a person)), you must
be one of the following:
(1) A qualified alien, as defined in WAC 388-424-0005, who cannot receive federal food stamps because of the eligibility restrictions described in WAC 388-424-0020; or
(2) An alien who ((is)) does not meet the definition of a
qualified alien as defined in WAC 388-424-0005 but who is:
(a) Allowed to enter the U.S. for permanent residence by permission of the U.S. Attorney General under section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA);
(b) Admitted for temporary residence under section 245A of the INA and is aged, blind, or disabled as described in Title XVI of the Social Security Act;
(c) Granted temporary resident status by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as a special agricultural worker under section 210 of the INA;
(d) Granted family unity status by the INS and the alien's spouse or parent is eligible to participate in FAP or the federal food stamp program; or
(e) Permanently residing under color of law (PRUCOL) in the United States as defined in WAC 388-424-0005(4).
[Statutory Authority: RCW 74.04.050, 74.04.055, 74.04.057 and 74.08.090. 98-16-044, § 388-424-0025, filed 7/31/98, effective 9/1/98. Formerly WAC 388-518-1805.]