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HOUSE BILL NO. 2464
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State of Washington 51st Legislature 1990 Regular Session
By Representatives May, Brooks, Sayan, Leonard, Ferguson, Prentice, Jacobsen, Valle, Cole, Scott, Horn, Vekich, Anderson, Jesernig, Wineberry and Nealey
Read first time 1/12/90 and referred to Committee on Health Care.
AN ACT Relating to health insurance coverage for chore service workers; and amending RCW 70.127.080.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 9, chapter 245, Laws of 1988 and RCW 70.127.080 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) An applicant for a home health, hospice, or home care agency license shall:
(a) File a written application on a form provided by the department;
(b) Demonstrate ability to comply with this chapter and the rules adopted under this chapter;
(c) Cooperate with on-site review conducted by the department prior to licensure or renewal;
(d) Provide evidence of and maintain professional liability insurance in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars per occurrence or adequate self-insurance as approved by the department. This subsection shall not apply to hospice agency applicants that provide hospice care without receiving compensation for delivery of services;
(e) Provide evidence of and maintain public liability and property damage insurance coverage in the sum of fifty thousand dollars for injury or damage to property per occurrence and fifty thousand dollars for injury or damage, including death, to any one person and one hundred thousand dollars for injury or damage, including death, to more than one person, or evidence of adequate self-insurance for public liability and property damage as approved by the department. This subsection shall not apply to hospice agency applicants that provide hospice care without receiving compensation for delivery of services;
(f) Provide evidence of and maintain health insurance that provides coverage that is at least equivalent to medical care coverage under chapter 74.09 RCW for persons employed to provide chore services who are not provided medical care coverage under chapter 74.09 RCW;
(g) Provide such proof as the department may require concerning organizational and governance structure, and the identity of the applicant, officers, directors, partners, managing employees, or owners of ten percent or more of the applicant's assets;
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(h) File with the department a list of the counties in which the
applicant will operate;
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(i) File with the department a list of the services offered;
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(j) Pay to the department a license fee as provided in RCW 70.127.090;
and
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(k) Provide any other information that the department may reasonably
require.
(2) A certificate of need under chapter 70.38 RCW is not required for licensure.
(3) A license or renewal shall not be granted pursuant to this chapter if the applicant, officers, directors, partners, managing employees, or owners of ten percent or more of the applicant's assets, within the last five years have been found in a civil or criminal proceeding to have committed any act which reasonably relates to the person's fitness to establish, maintain, or administer an agency or to provide care in the home of another.