(1) The department may impose civil penalties of at least one hundred dollars per day per violation.
(2) Fines up to one thousand dollars per day per violation may be issued under RCW
18.20.190 through June 30, 2019, and thereafter as follows:
(a) Beginning July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, the civil penalties may not exceed two thousand dollars per day per violation; and
(b) Beginning July 1, 2020, the civil penalties may not exceed three thousand dollars per day per violation.
(3) Fines up to three thousand dollars may be issued under RCW
18.20.185 for willful interference with a representative of the long-term care ombuds.
(4) Fines up to three thousand dollars may be issued under RCW
74.39A.060 for retaliation against a resident, employee, or any other person making a complaint, providing information to, or cooperating with, the ombuds, the department, the attorney general's office, or a law enforcement agency.
(5) Fines up to ten thousand dollars may be issued under RCW
18.20.190 for a current or former licensed provider who is operating an unlicensed home.
(6) When the assisted living facility fails to pay a fine under this chapter when due, the department may, in addition to other remedies, withhold an amount equal to the fine plus interest, if any, from any contract payment due to the provider from the department.
(7) Civil monetary penalties are due twenty-eight days after the assisted living facility or the owner or operator of an unlicensed assisted living facility is served with notice of the penalty unless the assisted living facility requests a hearing in compliance with chapter
34.05 RCW, RCW
43.20A.215, and this chapter. If the hearing is requested, the penalty becomes due ten days after a final decision affirming the assessed civil penalty. Thirty days after the department serves the assisted living facility with notice of the penalty, interest begins to accrue at a rate of one percent per month as authorized under RCW
43.20B.695.
(8) All receipts from civil penalties imposed under this chapter must be deposited in the assisted living facility temporary management account created in RCW
18.20.430.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
18.20.090. WSR 20-09-108, § 388-78A-3181, filed 4/16/20, effective 5/17/20. Statutory Authority: Chapter
18.20 RCW. WSR 19-18-031, § 388-78A-3181, filed 8/29/19, effective 9/29/19.]