PERMANENT RULES
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Aging and Disability Services Administration)
Effective Date of Rule: October 29, 2010.
Other Findings Required by Other Provisions of Law as Precondition to Adoption or Effectiveness of Rule: Under RCW 74.46.380(3) a rule may become effective earlier than thirty-one days after filing when the agency establishes that effective date in the adopting order and finds that the earlier effective date is necessary because of imminent peril to the public health, safety, or welfare.
Section 958, chapter 37, Laws of 2010 1st sp. sess. declared the act necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately. The rules of this adopting order are necessary to implement chapter 37, Laws of 2010 1st sp. sess. and thus, are necessary to avoid imminent peril to the public health, safety, or welfare.
The rules have been in effect since July 1, 2010, through an emergency adoption, see WSR 10-14-053.
Purpose: Beginning July 1, 2010 (fiscal year 2011), chapter 37, Laws of 2010 1st sp. sess. requires the department to increase the current annual renewal license fee for licensed boarding homes from $79 to $106 per bed.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 388-78A-3230.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.20.050.
Other Authority: Chapter 37, Laws of 2010, Biennial Appropriations Act section (ESSB 6444, Section 206 (19)(a)).
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 10-18-095 on September 1, 2010.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: October 8, 2010.
Katherine I. Vasquez
Rules Coordinator
4215.1 (1) Submit an annual license fee of ((seventy-nine)) one
hundred six dollars per bed of the licensed resident bed
capacity as determined by and in accordance with RCW 18.20.050;
(2) Submit an additional one hundred fifty dollars when billed by the department for:
(a) A third on-site visit required by the boarding home's failure to adequately correct problems identified in a statement of deficiencies; and
(b) A full out-of-sequence inspection resulting from information gathered during a complaint investigation.
(3) Submit an additional late fee in the amount of ten dollars per day from the license renewal date until the date of mailing the fee, as evidenced by the postmark; and
(4) Submit to construction review services a fee for the review of the construction documents per the review fee schedule that is based on the project cost.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.090 (2004 c 142 § 19) and chapter 18.20 RCW. 04-16-065, § 388-78A-3230, filed 7/30/04, effective 9/1/04.]