PERMANENT RULES
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Health and Recovery Services Administration)
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The department recently reorganized and updated chapter 388-544 WAC, Vision care. The permanent rule was filed on June 24, 2008, under WSR 08-14-052. In the newly revised rule, a new section (WAC 388-544-0575 Noncovered vision) was created to replace the repealed WAC 388-544-0475 Noncovered vision. When the permanent rule was filed, the department inadvertently missed listing WAC 388-544-0475 as repealed. This repeal is necessary so that two duplicate noncovered sections do not exist.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 388-544-0475.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 74.08.090.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 08-15-056 on July 14, 2008.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Date Adopted: September 4, 2008.
Stephanie E. Schiller
Rules Coordinator
3999.1 The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:
| WAC 388-544-0475 | Vision care -- Noncovered services, eyeglasses, and contact lenses. |