EMERGENCY RULES
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Economic Services Administration)
Effective Date of Rule: Immediately.
Purpose: The department is amending sections of chapter 388-448 WAC to repeal changes to general assistance incapacity criteria, including how the department uses social and vocational factors to determine eligibility proposed as WSR 10-08-2010. The proposed amendments will repeal changes to the general assistance incapacity criteria, and are required in order for the department to comply with ESSB 6444 as passed by the legislature, April 12, 2010. The bill limits the department's ability to make any changes to the incapacity determination and progressive evaluations process regulations until at least September 30, 2010, except for provisions related to the use of administrative review teams may be amended, and obsolete terminology and functional assessment language may be updated.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 388-448-0050, 388-448-0080, 388-448-0090, 388-448-0100, and 388-448-0110.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 74.04.050, 74.04.055, 74.04.057, 74.08.090, and 74.04.005.
Other Authority: The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009.
Under RCW 34.05.350 the agency for good cause finds that immediate adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule is necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, or general welfare, and that observing the time requirements of notice and opportunity to comment upon adoption of a permanent rule would be contrary to the public interest; and that in order to implement the requirements or reductions in appropriations enacted in any budget for fiscal years 2009, 2010, or 2011, which necessitates the need for the immediate adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule, and that observing the time requirements of notice and opportunity to comment upon adoption of a permanent rule would be contrary to the fiscal needs or requirements of the agency.
Reasons for this Finding: The bill limits the department's ability to make any changes to the incapacity determination and progressive evaluations process regulations until at least September 30, 2010, except for provisions related to the use of administrative review teams may be amended, and obsolete terminology and functional assessment language may be updated.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 5, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at 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 5, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: May 1, 2010.
Katherine I. Vasquez
Rules Coordinator
Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above material occurred in the copy filed by the department of social and health services and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.
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