Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

     Purpose: This rule repeals all rules relating to joint practice arrangements: WAC 246-919-840 How do advanced registered nurse practitioners qualify for prescriptive authority for Schedule II-IV drugs?, 246-919-841 Criteria for joint practice arrangement, 246-919-842 Endorsement of joint practice arrangements for ARNP licensure, 246-919-843 Process for joint practice arrangement termination, 246-919-844 Seventy-two hour limit, 246-919-845 Education for prescribing Schedule II-IV drugs, and 246-919-846 Jurisdiction.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 246-919-840 through 246-919-846.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.71.017 and 18.71.050.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 05-17-047 on August 9, 2005.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 7.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 7.

     Date Adopted: November 18, 2005.

Blake T. Maresh

Executive Director

OTS-8156.1

REPEALER

     The following sections of the Washington Administrative Code are repealed:

WAC 246-919-840	How do advanced registered nurse practitioners qualify for prescriptive authority for Schedule II - IV drugs?
WAC 246-919-841	Criteria for joint practice arrangement.
WAC 246-919-842	Endorsement of joint practice arrangements for ARNP licensure.
WAC 246-919-843	Process for joint practice arrangement termination.
WAC 246-919-844	Seventy-two-hour limit.
WAC 246-919-845	Education for prescribing Schedule II - IV drugs.
WAC 246-919-846	Jurisdiction.