HB 2592 - DIGEST

     Directs the governor to 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.