PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Medical Assistance Administration)
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 388-532 WAC, Family planning services.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 74.08.090, 74.09.520, 74.09.800, SSB 5968, section 2(12), chapter 392, Laws of 1999.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To implement the portion of the substitute senate bill authorizing the department to provide family planning services to persons with family incomes at or below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level (FPL).
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: The department invites the interested public to review and provide input on the draft language of the rule(s). Draft material and information about how to participate are available by contacting the DSHS representative identified below.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Ann Myers, Rules Coordinator, Medical Assistance Administration, P.O. Box 45533, Olympia, WA 98504-5533, fax (360) 586-9727, e-mail myersea@dshs.wa.gov.
July 20, 2000
Marie Myerchin-Redifer, Manager
Rules and Policies Assistance Unit