Effective Date of Rule: December 1, 2008.

     Purpose: The department is extending the effective date of the permanent rule filed as WSR 07-23-080 for WAC 388-501-0100 Subrogation. The new effective date is December 1, 2008.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 388-501-0100.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 74.08.090 and 74.09.185.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 07-13-087 on June 19, 2007.

     Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: WAC 388-501-0100 (6)(a), removed "department will presume" and added "department's rebuttable presumption is": "In the absence of evidence to the contrary as discussed below in subsection (6)(c), the department will presume department's rebuttable presumption is that..."

     A final cost-benefit analysis is available by contacting Roy Vervair, P.O. Box 45561, Olympia, WA 98504-5561, phone (360) 725-1060, fax (360) 753-3077, e-mail vervarf@dshs.wa.gov.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.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: December 12, 2007.

Robin Arnold-Williams

Secretary

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