WSR 18-14-034
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Behavioral Health Administration)
[Filed June 27, 2018, 8:43 a.m., effective July 28, 2018]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The department is repealing chapter 388-865 WAC, Community mental health and involuntary treatment programs and chapter 388-877 WAC, Behavioral health services administrative requirements. The legislature passed 2ESHB 1388, transferring portions of the responsibility for behavioral health to the department of health and portions to the health care authority effective July 1, 2018. The rules in these chapters will be rewritten under the department of health and the health care authority, therefore no longer needed by the department of social and health services. The department of health has filed emergency rules under WSR 18-14-018 on June 25, 2018, to become effective July 1, 2018, and the health care authority filed emergency rules under WSR 18-14-027 on June 26, 2018, to become effective July 1, 2018.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing chapters 388-865 and 388-877 WAC.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 71.05.560, 71.24.035, and 71.34.380.
Other Authority: Chapter 201, Laws of 2018.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 18-09-104 on April 18, 2018.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 141.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 141.
Date Adopted: June 27, 2018.
Katherine I. Vasquez
Rules Coordinator
REPEALER
The following chapters of the Washington Administrative Code are repealed July 1, 2018:
Chapter 388-865 WAC
Community mental health and involuntary treatment programs.
Chapter 388-877 WAC
Behavioral health services administrative requirements.