WSR 20-12-078
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
(Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission)
[Filed June 1, 2020, 4:02 p.m., effective July 2, 2020]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: WAC 246-901-140 Pharmacy services plan, the pharmacy quality assurance commission (commission) has repealed WAC 246-901-140 as the rule is obsolete and no longer necessary. It established a process to request approval for an exception to the standard pharmacist to technician ratio from the commission. WAC 246-901-130 adopted under WSR 19-17-034 on August 14, 2019, eliminated the standard ratio of 1:3 pharmacist to technician for all pharmacy setting, making WAC 246-901-140 unnecessary. Repealing the rule removes unnecessary and conflicting rule language. Repealing this rule also places the authority on the responsible pharmacy manager to determine the number of pharmacy technicians that can be satisfactorily supervised by the pharmacist(s) on duty.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 246-901-140.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.64A.030.
Other Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 19-23-078 on November 19, 2019.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.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: March 17, 2020.
Tim Lynch, PharmD, MS, Chair
Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission
REPEALER
The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:
WAC 246-901-140
Pharmacy services plan.