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HOUSE BILL 2592
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By Representatives H. Sommers, Dyer, Cody, Hankins, Conway, Mitchell, Dickerson, Lantz, Anderson, Kessler, Gardner, Linville, Lambert, Keiser, Tokuda, Costa, Scott, Kenney, O'Brien, Cole, Mason, Chopp, Constantine, Wood and Ogden
Read first time 01/15/98. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
AN ACT Relating to federal funding; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The governor shall negotiate with the federal department of health and human services' health care financing administration to obtain a regulatory waiver of provisions of the medical assistance statute, Title XIX of the federal social security act, to permit Washington to provide family planning services under the medical assistance program to families with income less than two hundred percent of the federal poverty level and report to the appropriate committees of the legislature by December 15, 1998, on the status of these negotiations.
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