CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2139



62nd Legislature
2012 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 8, 2012
  Yeas 98   Nays 0


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 8, 2012
  Yeas 49   Nays 0



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President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2139 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.



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Chief Clerk
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2139
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Passed Legislature - 2012 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2012 Regular Session

By House Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Representatives Cody and Hunter; by request of Department of Social and Health Services)

READ FIRST TIME 03/08/12.   



     AN ACT Relating to the establishment of new regional support network boundaries; and amending RCW 71.24.360.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 71.24.360 and 2005 c 504 s 805 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The department may establish new regional support network boundaries in any part of the state:
     (a) Where more than one network chooses not to respond to, or is unable to substantially meet the requirements of, the request for qualifications under ((section 4, chapter 503, Laws of 2005 or)) RCW 71.24.320;
     (b) Where a regional support network is subject to reprocurement under ((section 6, chapter 503, Laws of 2005)) RCW 71.24.330; or
     (c) Where two or more regional support networks propose to reconfigure themselves to achieve consolidation, in which case the procurement process described in RCW 71.24.320 and 71.24.330(2) does not apply.
     (2) The department may establish no fewer than ((eight)) six and no more than fourteen regional support networks under this chapter. No entity shall be responsible for more than three regional support networks.

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