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                                  HOUSE BILL 2664

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Representatives Wang and Brumsickle; by request of Dept. of Social and Health Services

Read first time 01/23/92.  Referred to Committee on Revenue.Authorizing the department of social and health services to set adult family home license fees by rule.

     AN ACT Relating to adult family home license fees; and amending RCW 70.128.060.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 70.128.060 and 1989 c 427 s 20 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) An application for license shall be made to the department upon forms provided by it and shall contain such information as the department reasonably requires.

     (2) The department shall issue a license to an adult family home if the department finds that the applicant and the home are in compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under this chapter; and that the applicant has no prior violations of this chapter relating to the adult family home subject to the application or any other adult family home, or of any other law regulating residential care facilities within the past five years that resulted in revocation or nonrenewal of a license.

     (3) The license fee shall be submitted with the application.

     (4) The department shall serve upon the applicant a copy of the decision granting or denying an application for a license.  An applicant shall have the right to contest denial of his or her application for a license as provided in chapter 34.05 RCW by requesting a hearing in writing within ten days after receipt of the notice of denial.

     (5) A provider shall not be licensed for more than one adult family home.  Exceptions may be authorized by the department for good cause, as defined in rule.  The department shall submit to appropriate committees of the legislature, by December 1, 1991, a report on the number and type of good cause exceptions granted.

     (6) ((The license fee shall be set at fifty dollars per year for each home.  A fifty dollar processing fee shall also be charged each home when the home is initially licensed)) An applicant shall pay fees as established by the department by rule.