08-19-026

WSR 08-19-026

PERMANENT RULES

DEPARTMENT OF

SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Health and Recovery Services Administration)

[ Filed September 8, 2008, 2:10 p.m. , effective October 9, 2008 ]

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

     Purpose: The department recently reorganized and updated chapter 388-544 WAC, Vision care. The permanent rule was filed on June 24, 2008, under WSR 08-14-052. In the newly revised rule, a new section (WAC 388-544-0575 Noncovered vision) was created to replace the repealed WAC 388-544-0475 Noncovered vision. When the permanent rule was filed, the department inadvertently missed listing WAC 388-544-0475 as repealed. This repeal is necessary so that two duplicate noncovered sections do not exist.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 388-544-0475.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 74.08.090.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 08-15-056 on July 14, 2008.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Date Adopted: September 4, 2008.

Stephanie E. Schiller

Rules Coordinator

3999.1
REPEALER

     The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:

WAC 388-544-0475

Vision care -- Noncovered services, eyeglasses, and contact lenses.