WSR 22-06-088
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Aging and Long-Term Support Administration)
[Filed March 1, 2022, 3:36 p.m., effective April 1, 2022]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The department is amending WAC 388-71-0503 What definitions apply to WAC 388-71-0500 through WAC 388-71-05640?, to rephrase the order of definitions to put them in alphabetical order. The change does not alter the intent or context of the rule and will not affect any existing rules.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 388-71-0503.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 22-01-187 on December 20, 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: March 1, 2022.
Katherine I. Vasquez
Rules Coordinator
SHS-4907.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 21-18-081, filed 8/30/21, effective 10/1/21)
WAC 388-71-0503What definitions apply to WAC 388-71-0500 through WAC 388-71-05640?
"Agency provider" means a long-term care worker who works for a home care agency.
"Area agencies on aging (AAA)" means a contracted entity that aging and long-term support administration (ALTSA) grants funds to in order to carry out the functions of the Older Americans Act, general-fund state programs and to provide case management services and supports to individuals eighteen and older who receive medicaid-funded LTC in their own homes.
"Applicant" means a person who is in the process of becoming an in-home long-term care worker.
(("Negative actions" are listed in WAC 388-113-0030.))
"Background check" means a name and date of birth check or a fingerprint-based background check, or both.
"Background check result" is defined in WAC 388-113-0010.
"Background check central unit (BCCU)" means the DSHS entity responsible for conducting background checks for the department.
"Character, competence, and suitability determination (CC&S)" is defined in WAC 388-113-0050.
"Client" means an individual receiving medicaid-funded in-home long term services from the department.
"Department" means the department of social and health services or its designees.
"Family member" includes, but is not limited to a parent, child, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin, grandparent, grandchild, grandniece, grandnephew, or such relatives when related by marriage.
"Fingerprint-based background check" means a search of in-state criminal history records through the Washington state patrol and national criminal history records through the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"Home care agency (HCA)" means an entity that is licensed by the department of health to provide home care services through a contract arrangement with the department to clients in places of permanent or temporary residence.
"Home care agency long-term care worker" means a long-term care worker who works for a home care agency.
"Individual provider (IP)" as defined in RCW
74.39A.240 limited to individual providers contracted with the department.
"Long-term care worker" as defined in RCW
74.39A.009 (17) but limited to individual providers contracted with the department or hired by the home care agency.
"Name and date of birth check" is a search conducted by the background check central unit (BCCU) of Washington state criminal history and negative action records using the applicant's name and date of birth.
"Negative actions" are listed in WAC 388-113-0030.