WSR 22-02-013
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
[Filed December 27, 2021, 11:38 a.m., effective January 27, 2022]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The department of health (department) is repealing chapter 246-826 WAC, Health care assistants, in support of ESSB 6237 (chapter 153, Laws of 2012). The bill created a career pathway for medical assistants and eliminated the health care assistant profession. ESSB 6237 created the medical assistant professions under chapter 18.360 RCW and repealed chapter 18.135 RCW, Health care assistants. In support of ESSB 6237, the department is repealing the health care assistant rules under chapter 246-826 WAC. Without the statute, the rules governing health care assistants are not enforceable and chapter 246-826 WAC must be repealed.
Due to staffing shortages and competing priorities, the department has been unable to address this area of cleanup until now.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 246-826-020, 246-826-030, 246-826-040, 246-826-050, 246-826-060, 246-826-070, 246-826-080, 246-826-100, 246-826-110, 246-826-120, 246-826-130, 246-826-140, 246-826-150, 246-826-160, 246-826-170, 246-826-180, 246-826-200, 246-826-210, 246-826-230, 246-826-300, 246-826-301, 246-826-302, 246-826-303, and 246-826-990.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 43.70.040.
Other Authority: ESSB 6237 (chapter 153, Laws of 2012).
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 21-18-106 on August 31, 2021.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 24.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 24.
Date Adopted: December 27, 2021.
Kristin Peterson, JD
Deputy Secretary
Policy and Planning
for Umair A. Shah, MD, MPH
Secretary
OTS-3140.1
REPEALER
The following chapter of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:
WAC 246-826-020
Delegation of functions to health care assistants.
WAC 246-826-030
Supervision of health care assistants.
WAC 246-826-040
Certification of health care assistants.
WAC 246-826-050
Renewal of health care assistants.
WAC 246-826-060
Department of health responsibilities.
WAC 246-826-070
Maintenance of listing of drugs and functions authorized.
WAC 246-826-080
Medication, diagnostic agent, and vaccine list.
WAC 246-826-100
Health care assistant classification.
WAC 246-826-110
Qualified trainer.
WAC 246-826-120
Provision of health care assistants training.
WAC 246-826-130
Category A minimum requirements.
WAC 246-826-140
Category B minimum requirements.
WAC 246-826-150
Category C minimum requirements.
WAC 246-826-160
Category D minimum requirements.
WAC 246-826-170
Category E minimum requirements.
WAC 246-826-180
Category F minimum requirements.
WAC 246-826-200
Hospital or nursing home drug injection.
WAC 246-826-210
Intravenous medications flow restrictions.
WAC 246-826-230
AIDS prevention and information education requirements—Health care assistants.
WAC 246-826-300
Definitions.
WAC 246-826-301
Hemodialysis technician, category G minimum requirements to perform hemodialysis.
WAC 246-826-302
Minimum training standards for mandatory hemodialysis technician training programs.
WAC 246-826-303
Minimum standards of practice and core competencies of hemodialysis technicians.
WAC 246-826-990
Health care assistant fees and renewal cycle.