Title 74 — Title 74 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
41 chapters · 927 sections in this title.
RCW 74.39A.500 Consumer directed employer program—Establishment—Structure—Vendor qualifications—Transition—Department duties.
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(1) The department may establish and implement a consumer directed employer program to provide personal care, respite care, and similar services to individuals with functional impairments under programs authorized through the medicaid state plan or medicaid waiver authorities and…
RCW 74.39A.505 Consumer directed employer program—Rule-making authority—2018 c 278.
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The department may adopt any rules as it deems necessary to implement the provisions of chapter 278, Laws of 2018.[ 2018 c 278 s 4.]Notes:Findings—Intent—2018 c 278: See note following RCW 74.39A.500.
RCW 74.39A.510 Consumer directed employer program—Limitations.
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(1) Nothing in chapter 278, Laws of 2018 modifies the department's:(a) Authority to establish a plan of care for each consumer, including establishing the number of hours in a week a consumer may assign to any one provider consistent with RCW 74.39A.525;(b) Core responsibility to…
RCW 74.39A.515 Duties of consumer directed employers that employ individual providers—Case management responsibilities—Rule making.
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(1) If a consumer directed employer employs individual providers, then the consumer directed employer shall:(a) Verify that each individual provider has met any training requirements established under this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter;(b) Conduct background checks…
RCW 74.39A.520 Individual providers employed by a consumer directed employer—Consumer's right to select, schedule, supervise, or dismiss individual providers.
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The following provisions apply only if individual providers are employed by a consumer directed employer:(1) Consumers and prospective consumers have the right to select, schedule, supervise the work of, and dismiss any individual provider providing services to them consistent wi…
RCW 74.39A.525 Overtime criteria—Department-contracted individual providers—Individual providers employed by a consumer directed employer—Rule making—Expenditure reports—Joint legislative-executive overtime oversight task force.
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(1) Except as authorized by subsection (3) or (4) of this section or otherwise required by law, the department may not permit a client to use a single department-contracted individual provider for more than forty hours in one workweek.(2) A consumer directed employer that employs…
RCW 74.39A.530 Consumer directed employer program—Labor and administrative rates—Rate-setting board—Funding process.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 6019-S.SL) ***If the department contracts with a consumer directed employer:(1) In addition to overtime and compensable travel time set forth in RCW 74.39A.525, the initial labor rates shall be paid as described in the most recent collective bargaining…
RCW 74.39A.540 Home care safety net assessment work group—Securing federal funding—Contracting—Reporting.
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(1) The home care safety net assessment work group is established, with the following members:(a) The director of the health care authority, or the director's designee;(b) The secretary of the department, or the secretary's designee;(c) The secretary of the department of health, …
RCW 74.39A.550 Long-term care industry data—Annual report.
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Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, beginning June 1, 2025, the department shall annually report on the status of:(1) The long-term care worker supply;(2) The average wages of long-term care workers compared to entry-level positions in o…
RCW 74.39A.800 Changes to agreements—Performance of duties.
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(1) If any provision of chapter 1, Laws of 2012 triggers changes to an agreement reached under RCW 74.39A.300, the changes must go into effect immediately without need for legislative approval.(2) The requirements contained in RCW 74.39A.300 and chapter 1, Laws of 2012 constitute…
RCW 74.39A.900 Section captions—1993 c 508.
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Section captions as used in this act constitute no part of the law.[ 1993 c 508 s 10.]
RCW 74.39A.901 Conflict with federal requirements.
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If any part of this chapter or a collective bargaining agreement under this chapter is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be in conflict with federal requirements that are a prescribed condition to the allocation of federal funds to the state, the conflicting part of t…
RCW 74.39A.903 Effective date—1993 c 508.
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This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately [May 18, 1993].[ 1993 c 508 s 13.]