CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2139

Chapter 91, Laws of 2012

62nd Legislature
2012 Regular Session



REGIONAL SUPPORT NETWORKS--BOUNDARIES



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/07/12

Passed by the House March 8, 2012
  Yeas 98   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 8, 2012
  Yeas 49   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2139 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved March 29, 2012, 1:13 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 29, 2012







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2139
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Passed Legislature - 2012 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2012 Regular Session

By House Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Representatives Cody and Hunter; by request of Department of Social and Health Services)

READ FIRST TIME 03/08/12.   



     AN ACT Relating to the establishment of new regional support network boundaries; and amending RCW 71.24.360.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 71.24.360 and 2005 c 504 s 805 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The department may establish new regional support network boundaries in any part of the state:
     (a) W
here more than one network chooses not to respond to, or is unable to substantially meet the requirements of, the request for qualifications under ((section 4, chapter 503, Laws of 2005 or)) RCW 71.24.320;
     (b) W
here a regional support network is subject to reprocurement under ((section 6, chapter 503, Laws of 2005)) RCW 71.24.330; or
     (c) Where two or more regional support networks propose to reconfigure themselves to achieve consolidation, in which case the procurement process described in RCW 71.24.320 and 71.24.330(2) does not apply
.
     (2) The department may establish no fewer than ((eight)) six and no more than fourteen regional support networks under this chapter. No entity shall be responsible for more than three regional support networks.


         Passed by the House March 8, 2012.
         Passed by the Senate March 8, 2012.
         Approved by the Governor March 29, 2012.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 29, 2012.