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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.255 - Novelty Lighters. › 70.255.030 - Civil penalty—Jurisdiction.

RCW 70.255.030
Civil penalty—Jurisdiction.
(1) The authority having jurisdiction may impose a civil penalty for a violation of this chapter. The civil penalty may not exceed:
(a) For a wholesale dealer that distributes or offers to sell novelty lighters to retail dealers or consumers, a written warning for the first violation and a monetary penalty of five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation.
(b) For a retail dealer that distributes or offers to sell novelty lighters to consumers, a written warning for the first violation and a monetary penalty of two hundred fifty dollars for each subsequent violation.
(2) The authority having jurisdiction may bring an action seeking:
(a) Injunctive relief to prevent or end a violation of this chapter;
(b) To recover civil penalties imposed under subsection (1) of this section; or
(c) To recover attorneys' fees and other enforcement costs and disbursements.
(3) Penalties under this section must be deposited in an account designated by the authority having jurisdiction.
(4) A district court has jurisdiction over all proceedings brought under this section.
[ 2009 c 273 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.255 - Novelty Lighters. › 70.255.040 - Manufacturers must cease sale or distribution.

RCW 70.255.040
Manufacturers must cease sale or distribution.
(1) On July 26, 2009, manufacturers must immediately cease the sale or distribution of novelty lighters in this state.
(2) On July 26, 2009, wholesalers and retail dealers have a maximum of ninety days to reduce their current inventory of novelty lighters. In no instance may wholesalers and retail dealers sell or distribute a novelty lighter in this state after ninety days from July 26, 2009.
[ 2009 c 273 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.010 - Finding.

RCW 70.265.010
Finding.
The legislature finds that it is in the interests of the people of the state of Washington to be able to establish public hospital capital facility areas as quasi-municipal corporations and independent taxing units existing within the boundaries of counties composed entirely of islands that receive medical services from an existing public hospital district but are not annexed to an existing public hospital district for the purpose of financing the construction, additions, or betterments of capital hospital facilities or other capital health care facilities.
[ 2009 c 481 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.020 - Definitions.

RCW 70.265.020
Definitions.
(1) "Hospital capital facilities" include both real and personal property including land, buildings, site improvements, equipment, furnishings, collections, and all necessary costs related to acquisition, financing, design, construction, equipping, and remodeling.
(2) "Other capital health care facilities" means nursing home, extended care, long-term care, outpatient and rehabilitative facilities, ambulances, and such other facilities as are appropriate to the health needs of the population served.
(3) "Public hospital capital facility area" means a quasi-municipal corporation and independent taxing authority within the meaning of Article VII, section 1 of the state Constitution, and a taxing district within the meaning of Article VII, section 2 of the state Constitution, created by a county legislative authority of a county composed entirely of islands that receives medical services from a hospital district, but is prevented by geography and the absence of contiguous boundaries from annexing to that district. A public hospital capital facility area may include all or a portion of a city or town.
[ 2009 c 481 § 2.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: The definitions in this section have been alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k).
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.030 - Establishing a public hospital capital facility area—Process.

RCW 70.265.030
Establishing a public hospital capital facility area—Process.
(1)(a) Upon receipt of a completed petition to both establish a public hospital capital facility area and submit a ballot proposition under RCW 70.265.070 to finance public hospital capital facilities and other capital health care facilities, the legislative authority of the county in which a proposed public hospital capital facility area is to be established shall submit separate ballot propositions to voters to authorize establishing the proposed public hospital capital facility area and authorizing the public hospital capital facility area, if established, to finance public hospital capital facilities or other capital health care facilities by issuing general indebtedness and imposing excess levies to retire the indebtedness. A petition submitted under this section must be accompanied by a written request to establish a public hospital capital facility area that is signed by a majority of the commissioners of the public hospital district serving the proposed area.
(b) The ballot propositions must be submitted to voters of the proposed public hospital capital facility area at a general or special election. If the proposed election date is not a general election, the county legislative authority is encouraged to request an election when another unit of local government with territory located in the proposed public hospital capital facility area is already holding a special election under RCW 29A.04.330. Approval of the ballot proposition to create a public hospital capital facility area requires a simple majority vote by the voters participating in the election.
(2) A completed petition submitted under this section must include:
(a) A description of the boundaries of the public hospital capital facility area; and
(b) A copy of a resolution of the legislative authority of each city, town, and hospital district with territory in the proposed public hospital capital facility area indicating both: (i) Approval of the creation of the proposed public hospital capital facility area; and (ii) agreement on how election costs will be paid for ballot propositions to voters that authorize the public hospital capital facility area to incur general indebtedness and impose excess levies to retire the general indebtedness.
[ 2009 c 481 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.040 - Petition for formation of a public hospital capital facility area less than the entire county—Process.

RCW 70.265.040
Petition for formation of a public hospital capital facility area less than the entire county—Process.
Any petition for the formation of a public hospital capital facility area may describe an area less than the entire county in which the petition is filed, the boundaries of which must follow the then existing precinct boundaries and not divide any voting precinct; and in the event that a petition is filed containing not less than ten percent of the voters of the proposed public hospital capital facility area who voted at the last general election, certified by the auditor in like manner as for a countywide district, the board of county commissioners shall fix a date for a hearing on the petition, and shall publish the petition, without the signatures thereto appended, for two weeks prior to the date of the hearing, together with a notice stating the time of the meeting when the petition will be heard. Publications required by this chapter must be in a newspaper published in the proposed public hospital capital facility area, or, if there be no such newspaper, then in a newspaper published in the county in which the public hospital capital facility area is situated, and of general circulation in that county. The hearing on the petition may be adjourned from time to time, not exceeding four weeks in all. If upon the final hearing the board of county commissioners finds that any lands have been unjustly or improperly included within the proposed public hospital capital facility area the board shall change and fix the boundary lines in such manner as it deems reasonable and just and conducive to the welfare and convenience, and make and enter an order establishing and defining the boundary lines of the proposed public hospital capital facility area: PROVIDED, That no lands may be included within the boundaries so fixed lying outside the boundaries described in the petition, except upon the written request of the owners of those lands.
[ 2009 c 481 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.050 - Governing body.

RCW 70.265.050
Governing body.
The governing body of the public hospital capital facility area must consist of three members of the county legislative authority from each county in which the public hospital capital facility area is located. In counties that have more than three members of their legislative body, the three members who serve on the governing body of the public hospital capital facility area must be chosen by the full membership of the county legislative authority.
[ 2009 c 481 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.060 - Authority to construct, acquire, purchase, maintain, add to, and remodel facilities—Interlocal agreements—Legal title.

RCW 70.265.060
Authority to construct, acquire, purchase, maintain, add to, and remodel facilities—Interlocal agreements—Legal title.
A public hospital capital facility area may construct, acquire, purchase, maintain, add to, and remodel public hospital capital facilities, and the governing body of the public hospital capital facility area may, by interlocal agreement or otherwise, contract with a county, city, town, or public hospital district to design, administer the construction of, operate, or maintain a public hospital capital facility or other capital health care facility financed pursuant to this chapter. Legal title to public hospital capital facilities or other capital health care facilities acquired or constructed pursuant to this chapter may be transferred, acquired, or held by the public hospital capital facility area or by a county, city, town, or public hospital district in which the facility is located and receives service.
[ 2009 c 481 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.070 - Financing—Bonds authorized.

RCW 70.265.070
Financing—Bonds authorized.
(1) A public hospital capital facility area may contract indebtedness or borrow money to finance public hospital capital facilities and other capital health care facilities and may issue general obligation bonds for such purpose not exceeding an amount, together with any existing indebtedness of the public hospital capital facility area, equal to one and one-quarter percent of the value of the taxable property in the public hospital capital facility area and impose excess property tax levies to retire the general indebtedness as provided in RCW 39.36.050 if a ballot proposition authorizing both the indebtedness and excess levies is approved by at least three-fifths of the voters of the public hospital capital facility area voting on the proposition, and the total number of voters voting on the proposition constitutes not less than forty percent of the total number of voters in the public hospital capital facility area voting at the last preceding general election. The term "value of the taxable property" has the meaning set forth in RCW 39.36.015. The proposition must be submitted to voters at a general or special election and may be submitted to voters at the same election as the election when the ballot proposition authorizing the establishing of the public hospital capital facility area is submitted. If the proposed election date is not a general election, the county legislative authority is encouraged to request an election when another unit of local government with territory located in the proposed public hospital capital facility area is already holding a special election under RCW 29A.04.330.
(2) A public hospital capital facility area may accept gifts or grants of money or property of any kind for the same purposes for which it is authorized to borrow money in subsection (1) of this section.
[ 2009 c 481 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.080 - Dissolution of public hospital capital facility area.

RCW 70.265.080
Dissolution of public hospital capital facility area.
(1) A public hospital capital facility area may be dissolved by a majority vote of the governing body when all obligations under any general obligation bonds issued by the public hospital capital facility area have been discharged and any other contractual obligations of the public hospital capital facility area have either been discharged or assumed by another governmental entity.
(2) A public hospital capital facility area must be dissolved by the governing body if the first two ballot propositions under RCW 70.265.070 that are submitted to voters are not approved.
[ 2009 c 481 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.090 - Limitations on legal challenges.

RCW 70.265.090
Limitations on legal challenges.
Unless commenced within thirty days after the date of the filing of the certificate of the canvass of an election on the proposition of creating a new public hospital capital facility area pursuant to this chapter, no lawsuit whatever may be maintained challenging in any way the legal existence of the public hospital capital facility area or the validity of the proceedings had for the organization and creation thereof. If the creation of a public hospital capital facility area is not challenged within the period specified in this section, the public hospital capital facility area conclusively must be deemed duly and regularly organized under the laws of this state.
[ 2009 c 481 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.100 - Treasurer—Duties—Funds—Surety bonds.

RCW 70.265.100
Treasurer—Duties—Funds—Surety bonds.
(1) The treasurer of the county in which a public hospital capital facility area is located shall be treasurer of the public hospital capital facility area, except that the commission of the public hospital district in which the facility area is located by resolution may designate some other person having experience in financial or fiscal matters as treasurer of the public hospital capital facility area. If the treasurer is not the county treasurer, the commission shall require a bond, with a surety company authorized to do business in the state of Washington, in an amount and under the terms and conditions which the commission by resolution from time to time finds will protect the public hospital capital facility area against loss. The premium on any such bond must be paid by the public hospital capital facility area.
(2) All public hospital capital facility area funds must be paid to the treasurer and must be disbursed by him or her only on warrants issued by an auditor appointed by the commission, upon orders or vouchers approved by it. The treasurer shall establish a public hospital capital facility area fund, into which all public hospital capital facility area funds must be paid, and he or she shall maintain such special funds as may be created by the commission, into which he or she shall place all money as the commission may, by resolution, direct.
(3) If the treasurer of the district is the treasurer of the county all public hospital capital facility area funds must be deposited with the county depositaries under the same restrictions, contracts, and security as provided for county depositaries. If the treasurer of the public hospital capital facility area is some other person, all funds must be deposited in a bank or banks authorized to do business in this state as the commission by resolution designates, and with surety bond to the public hospital capital facility area or securities in lieu thereof of the kind, no less in amount, for deposit of county funds. The surety bond or securities in lieu thereof must be filed or deposited with the treasurer of the public hospital capital facility area, and approved by resolution of the commission.
(4) All interest collected on public hospital capital facility area funds belong to the public hospital capital facility area and [must] be deposited to its credit in the proper public hospital capital facility area funds.
(5) A public hospital capital facility area may provide and require a reasonable bond of any other person handling moneys or securities of the public hospital capital facility area. The public hospital capital facility area may pay the premium on the bond.
[ 2009 c 481 § 10.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.265 - Public Hospital Capital Facility Areas. › 70.265.110 - Contracting with other entities to provide hospital facilities or hospital services.

RCW 70.265.110
Contracting with other entities to provide hospital facilities or hospital services.
Any public hospital capital facility area may contract or join with any public hospital district, publicly owned hospital, nonprofit hospital, legal entity, or individual to acquire, own, operate, manage, or provide any hospital or other health care facilities or hospital services or other health care services to be used by individuals, districts, hospitals, or others, including providing health maintenance services. If a public hospital capital facility area chooses to contract or join with another party or parties pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, it may do so through establishing a nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other legal entity of its choosing in which the public hospital capital facility area and the other party or parties participate. The governing body of the legal entity must include representatives of the public hospital capital facility area, which representatives may include members of the public hospital district's board of commissioners. A public hospital capital facility area contracting or joining with another party pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may appropriate funds and may sell, lease, or otherwise provide property, personnel, and services to the legal entity established to carry out the contract or joint activity.
[ 2009 c 481 § 11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.010 - Definitions.

RCW 70.290.010
Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Association" means the Washington vaccine association.
(2) "Covered lives" means all persons under the age of nineteen in Washington state who are:
(a) Covered under an individual or group health benefit plan issued or delivered in Washington state or an individual or group health benefit plan that otherwise provides benefits to Washington residents; or
(b) Enrolled in a group health benefit plan administered by a third-party administrator. Persons under the age of nineteen for whom federal funding is used to purchase vaccines or who are enrolled in state purchased health care programs covering low-income children including, but not limited to, apple health for kids under RCW 74.09.470 and the basic health plan under chapter 70.47 RCW are not considered "covered lives" under this chapter.
(3) "Estimated vaccine cost" means the estimated cost to the state over the course of a state fiscal year for the purchase and distribution of vaccines purchased at the federal discount rate by the department of health.
(4) "Health benefit plan" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 48.43.005 and also includes health benefit plans administered by a third-party administrator.
(5) "Health carrier" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 48.43.005.
(6) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of health.
(7) "State supplied vaccine" means vaccine purchased by the state department of health for covered lives for whom the state is purchasing vaccine using state funds raised via assessments on health carriers and third-party administrators as provided in this chapter.
(8) "Third-party administrator" means any person or entity who, on behalf of a health insurer or health care purchaser, receives or collects charges, contributions, or premiums for, or adjusts or settles claims on or for, residents of Washington state or Washington health care providers and facilities.
(9) "Total nonfederal program cost" means the estimated vaccine cost less the amount of federal revenue available to the state for the purchase and distribution of vaccines.
(10) "Vaccine" means a preparation of killed or attenuated living microorganisms, or fraction thereof, that upon administration stimulates immunity that protects against disease and is approved by the federal food and drug administration as safe and effective and recommended by the advisory committee on immunization practices of the centers for disease control and prevention for administration to children under the age of nineteen years.
[ 2010 c 174 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.020 - Washington vaccine association—Creation.

RCW 70.290.020
Washington vaccine association—Creation.
There is created a nonprofit corporation to be known as the Washington vaccine association. The association is formed for the purpose of collecting and remitting adequate funds from health carriers and third-party administrators for the cost of vaccines provided to certain children in Washington state.
[ 2010 c 174 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.050 - Selection of vaccines to be purchased—Committee.

RCW 70.290.050
Selection of vaccines to be purchased—Committee.
(1) The board of the association shall establish a committee for the purposes of developing recommendations to the board regarding selection of vaccines to be purchased in each upcoming year by the department. The committee must be composed of at least five voting board members, including at least three health carrier or third-party administrator members, one physician, and the secretary or the secretary's designee. The committee must also include a representative of vaccine manufacturers, who is a nonvoting member of the committee. The representative of vaccine manufacturers must be chosen by the secretary from a list of three nominees submitted collectively by vaccine manufacturers on an annual basis.
(2) In selecting vaccines to purchase, the following factors should be strongly considered by the committee: Patient safety and clinical efficacy, public health and purchaser value, compliance with RCW 70A.230.120, patient and provider choice, and stability of vaccine supply.
[ 2021 c 65 § 68; 2010 c 174 § 5.]
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2021 c 65: See note following RCW 53.54.030.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.060 - Additional duties and powers of the association and secretary—Penalty—Rules.

RCW 70.290.060
Additional duties and powers of the association and secretary—Penalty—Rules.
In addition to the duties and powers enumerated elsewhere in this chapter:
(1) The association may, pursuant to either vote of its board of directors or request of the secretary, audit compliance with reporting obligations established under the association's plan of operation. Upon failure of any entity that has been audited to reimburse the costs of such audit as certified by vote of the association's board of directors within forty-five days of notice of such vote, the secretary shall assess a civil penalty of one hundred fifty percent of the amount of such costs.
(2) The association may establish an interest charge for late payment of any assessment under this chapter. The secretary shall assess a civil penalty against any health carrier or third-party administrator that fails to pay an assessment within three months of notification under RCW 70.290.030. The civil penalty under this subsection is one hundred fifty percent of such assessment.
(3) The secretary and the association are authorized to file liens and seek judgment to recover amounts in arrears and civil penalties, and recover reasonable collection costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs. Civil penalties so levied must be deposited in the universal vaccine purchase account created in RCW 43.70.720.
(4) The secretary may adopt rules under chapter 34.05 RCW as necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
(5) Upon request of the health care authority, the secretary and the association must provide the health care authority with any available information maintained by the association needed to calculate the proportional share of program costs under RCW 71.24.064.
[ 2020 c 291 § 8; 2010 c 174 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.070 - Board shall submit financial report to the secretary.

RCW 70.290.070
Board shall submit financial report to the secretary.
The board of directors of the association shall submit to the secretary, no later than one hundred twenty days after the close of the association's fiscal year, a financial report in a form approved by the secretary.
[ 2010 c 174 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.075 - Third-party administrators—Registration and reporting.

RCW 70.290.075
Third-party administrators—Registration and reporting.
(1) A third-party administrator must register with the association. Registrants must report a change of legal name, business name, business address, or business telephone number to the association within ten days after the change.
(2) The association must establish data elements and procedures for the registration of third-party administrators necessary to implement this section in its plan of operation.
[ 2013 c 144 § 47.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.080 - Limitation of liability.

RCW 70.290.080
Limitation of liability.
No liability on the part of, and no cause of action of any nature, shall arise against any member of the board of the association, against an employee or agent of the association, or against any health care provider for any lawful action taken by them in the performance of their duties or required activities under this chapter.
[ 2010 c 174 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.090 - Vote to recommend termination of the association—Disposition of funds.

RCW 70.290.090
Vote to recommend termination of the association—Disposition of funds.
(1) The association board may, on or after June 30, 2015, vote to recommend termination of the association if it finds that the original intent of its formation and operation, which is to ensure more cost-effective purchase and distribution of vaccine than if provided through uncoordinated purchase by health care providers, has not been achieved. The association board shall provide notice of the recommendation to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the legislature within thirty days of the vote being taken by the association board. If the legislature has not acted by the last day of the next regular legislative session to reject the board's recommendation, the board may vote to permanently dissolve the association.
(2) In the event of a voluntary or involuntary dissolution of the association, funds remaining in the universal purchase vaccine account created in RCW 43.70.720 that were collected under this chapter must be returned to the member health carrier and third-party administrators in proportion to their previous year's contribution, from any balance remaining following the repayment of any prepayments for start-up funding not previously recouped by such member.
[ 2010 c 174 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.100 - Physicians and clinics ordering state supplied vaccine—Tracking of vaccine delivered—Documentation.

RCW 70.290.100
Physicians and clinics ordering state supplied vaccine—Tracking of vaccine delivered—Documentation.
Physicians and clinics ordering state supplied vaccine must ensure they have billing mechanisms and practices in place that enable the association to accurately track vaccine delivered to association members' covered lives and must submit documentation in such a form as may be prescribed by the board in consultation with state physician organizations. Physicians and other persons providing childhood immunization are strongly encouraged to use state supplied vaccine whenever possible. Nothing in this chapter prohibits health carriers and third-party administrators from denying claims for vaccine serum costs when the serum or serums providing similar protection are provided or available via state supplied vaccine.
[ 2010 c 174 § 13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.110 - Judicial invalidation of program's funding—Termination of program.

RCW 70.290.110
Judicial invalidation of program's funding—Termination of program.
If the requirement that any segment of health carriers, third-party administrators, or state or local governmental entities provide funding for the program established in this chapter is invalidated by a court of competent jurisdiction, the board of the association may terminate the program one hundred twenty days following a final judicial determination on the matter.
[ 2010 c 174 § 14.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.290 - Washington Vaccine Association. › 70.290.900 - Effective date—2010 c 174.

RCW 70.290.900
Effective date—2010 c 174.
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 takes effect immediately [March 23, 2010].
[ 2010 c 174 § 17.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.305 - Adverse Childhood Experiences. › 70.305.005 - Finding—Purpose.

RCW 70.305.005
Finding—Purpose.
The legislature finds that adverse childhood experiences are a powerful common determinant of a child's ability to be successful at school and, as an adult, to be successful at work, to avoid behavioral and chronic physical health conditions, and to build healthy relationships. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the primary causes of adverse childhood experiences in communities and to mobilize broad public and private support to prevent harm to young children and reduce the accumulated harm of adverse experiences throughout childhood. A focused effort is needed to: (1) Identify and promote the use of innovative strategies based on evidence-based and research-based approaches and practices; and (2) align public and private policies and funding with approaches and strategies which have demonstrated effectiveness.
The legislature recognizes that many community public health and safety networks across the state have knowledge and expertise regarding the reduction of adverse childhood experiences and can provide leadership on this initiative in their communities. In addition, a broad range of community coalitions involved with early learning, child abuse prevention, and community mobilization have coalesced in many communities. The adverse childhood experiences initiative should coordinate and assemble the strongest components of these networks and coalitions to effectively respond to the challenge of reducing and preventing adverse childhood experiences while providing flexibility for communities to design responses that are appropriate for their community.
[ 2011 1st sp.s. c 32 § 1.]
NOTES:
Transition plan—Report to the legislature—2011 1st sp.s. c 32: "(1) Beginning July 1, 2011, the council for children and families and the *department of early learning shall develop a plan for transitioning the work of the council for children and families, including public awareness campaigns, to the *department of early learning. The council for children and families and the *department of early learning shall participate in the development of the private-public initiative in order to streamline efforts around the prevention of child abuse and neglect and avoid duplication of effort.
(2) The executive director of the council for children and families and the director of the *department of early learning shall consult with the planning group convened in section 3 of this act to develop strategies to maximize Washington's leverage and match of federal child abuse and neglect prevention moneys.
(3) No later than January 1, 2012, the council for children and families and the *department of early learning shall report to the appropriate committees of the legislature on its transition plan." [ 2011 1st sp.s. c 32 § 9.]
*Reviser's note: The department of early learning was abolished and its powers, duties, and functions were transferred to the department of children, youth, and families by 2017 3rd sp.s. c 6 § 802, effective July 1, 2018.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.305 - Adverse Childhood Experiences. › 70.305.010 - Definitions.

RCW 70.305.010
Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Adverse childhood experiences" means the following indicators of severe childhood stressors and family dysfunction that, when experienced in the first eighteen years of life and taken together, are proven by public health research to be powerful determinants of physical, mental, social, and behavioral health across the life span: Child physical abuse; child sexual abuse; child emotional abuse; child emotional or physical neglect; alcohol or other substance abuse in the home; mental illness, depression, or suicidal behaviors in the home; incarceration of a family member; witnessing intimate partner violence; and parental divorce or separation. Adverse childhood experiences have been demonstrated to affect the development of the brain and other major body systems.
(2) "Community public health and safety networks" or "networks" means the organizations authorized under RCW 70.190.060.
(3) "Department" means the department of social and health services.
(4) "Evidence-based" has the same meaning as in RCW 43.216.157.
(5) "Research-based" has the same meaning as in RCW 43.216.157.
(6) "Secretary" means the secretary of social and health services.
(7) "Secretary of children, youth, and families" means the secretary of the department of children, youth, and families.
[ 2019 c 64 § 24; 2018 c 58 § 11; 2011 1st sp.s. c 32 § 2.]
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2019 c 64: See note following RCW 1.20.110.
Effective date—2018 c 58: See note following RCW 28A.655.080.
Transition plan—Report to the legislature—2011 1st sp.s. c 32: See note following RCW 70.305.005.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.305 - Adverse Childhood Experiences. › 70.305.020 - Preventing and mitigating the effects of adverse childhood experiences—Planning group—Report to the legislature—Secretary's authority.

RCW 70.305.020
Preventing and mitigating the effects of adverse childhood experiences—Planning group—Report to the legislature—Secretary's authority.
(1)(a) The secretary of the department of social and health services and the secretary of the department of children, youth, and families shall actively participate in the development of a nongovernmental private-public initiative focused on coordinating government and philanthropic organizations' investments in the positive development of children and preventing and mitigating the effects of adverse childhood experiences. The secretaries shall convene a planning group to work with interested private partners to: (i) Develop a process by which the goals identified in RCW 70.305.005 shall be met; and (ii) develop recommendations for inclusive and diverse governance to advance the adverse childhood experiences initiative.
(b) The secretaries shall select no more than twelve to fifteen persons as members of the planning group. The members selected must represent a diversity of interests including: Early learning coalitions, community public health and safety networks, organizations that work to prevent and address child abuse and neglect, tribes, representatives of public agency agencies involved with interventions in or prevention of adverse childhood experiences, philanthropic organizations, and organizations focused on community mobilization.
(c) The secretaries shall cochair the planning group meetings and shall convene the first meeting.
(2) In addition to other powers granted to the secretary of the department of social and health services, the secretary of the department of social and health services may:
(a) Enter into contracts on behalf of the department of social and health services to carry out the purposes of this chapter;
(b) Provide funding to communities or any governance entity that is created as a result of the partnership; and
(c) Accept gifts, grants, or other funds for the purposes of this chapter.
[ 2018 c 58 § 10; 2011 1st sp.s. c 32 § 3.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2018 c 58: See note following RCW 28A.655.080.
Transition plan—Report to the legislature—2011 1st sp.s. c 32: See note following RCW 70.305.005.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.320 - Service Coordination Organizations—Accountability Measures. › 70.320.010 - Definitions.

RCW 70.320.010
Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Authority" means the health care authority.
(2) "Department" means the department of social and health services.
(3) "Emerging best practice" or "promising practice" means a program or practice that, based on statistical analyses or a well-established theory of change, shows potential for meeting the evidence-based or research-based criteria, which may include the use of a program that is evidence-based for outcomes other than those listed in this section.
(4) "Evidence-based" means a program or practice that has been tested in heterogeneous or intended populations with multiple randomized, or statistically controlled evaluations, or both; or one large multiple site randomized, or statistically controlled evaluation, or both, where the weight of the evidence from a systemic review demonstrates sustained improvements in at least one outcome. "Evidence-based" also means a program or practice that can be implemented with a set of procedures to allow successful replication in Washington and, when possible, is determined to be cost-beneficial.
(5) "Research-based" means a program or practice that has been tested with a single randomized, or statistically controlled evaluation, or both, demonstrating sustained desirable outcomes; or where the weight of the evidence from a systemic review supports sustained outcomes as described in this subsection but does not meet the full criteria for evidence-based.
(6) "Service coordination organization" or "service contracting entity" means the authority and department, or an entity that may contract with the state to provide, directly or through subcontracts, a comprehensive delivery system of medical, behavioral, long-term care, or social support services, including entities such as managed care organizations that provide medical services to clients under chapter 74.09 RCW and RCW 71.24.380, and area agencies on aging providing case management services under chapter 74.39A RCW.
[ 2019 c 325 § 5023; 2014 c 225 § 73; 2013 c 320 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2019 c 325: See note following RCW 71.24.011.
Effective date—2014 c 225: See note following RCW 71.24.016.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.320 - Service Coordination Organizations—Accountability Measures. › 70.320.030 - Adoption of performance measures.

RCW 70.320.030
Adoption of performance measures.
(1) The authority shall adopt performance measures to determine whether service contracting entities are achieving the outcomes described in RCW 70.320.020 and 41.05.690 for clients enrolled in medical managed care programs operated according to Title XIX or XXI of the federal social security act.
(2) The authority shall adopt performance measures to determine whether service contracting entities are achieving the outcomes described in RCW 70.320.020 for clients receiving mental health, long-term care, or chemical dependency services.
[ 2021 c 267 § 3; 2015 c 209 § 1; 2013 c 320 § 3.]
NOTES:
Findings—Purpose—2021 c 267: See note following RCW 70.320.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.320 - Service Coordination Organizations—Accountability Measures. › 70.320.040 - Contract requirements.

RCW 70.320.040
Contract requirements.
By July 1, 2015, the authority and the department shall require that contracts with service coordination organizations include provisions requiring:
(1) The adoption of the outcomes and performance measures developed under this chapter and RCW 41.05.690 and mechanisms for reporting data to support each of the outcomes and performance measures; and
(2) That an initial health screen be conducted for new enrollees pursuant to the terms and conditions of the contract.
[ 2015 c 209 § 2; 2013 c 320 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.320 - Service Coordination Organizations—Accountability Measures. › 70.320.050 - Report to the legislature.

RCW 70.320.050
Report to the legislature.
(1) By December 1, 2014, the department and the authority shall report jointly to the legislature on the expected outcomes and the performance measures. The report must identify the performance measures and the expected outcomes established for each program, the relationship between the performance measures and expected improvements in client outcomes, mechanisms for reporting outcomes and measuring performance, and options for applying the performance measures and expected outcomes development process to other health and social service programs.
(2) By December 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, the department and the authority shall report to the legislature on the incorporation of the performance measures into contracts with service coordination organizations and progress toward achieving the identified outcomes. The report shall include:
(a) The number of medicaid clients enrolled over the previous year;
(b) The number of enrollees who received a baseline health assessment over the previous year;
(c) An analysis of trends in health improvement for medicaid enrollees in accordance with the measure set established under RCW 41.05.690; and
(d) Recommendations for improving the health of medicaid enrollees.
[ 2023 c 51 § 29; 2015 c 209 § 3; 2013 c 320 § 5.]
NOTES:
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.320 - Service Coordination Organizations—Accountability Measures. › 70.320.060 - Civil actions—Outcomes and performance measures do not establish a standard of care.

RCW 70.320.060
Civil actions—Outcomes and performance measures do not establish a standard of care.
The outcomes and performance measures established pursuant to this chapter do not establish a standard of care in any civil action brought by a recipient of services. The failure of a service coordination organization to meet the outcomes and performance measures established pursuant to this chapter does not create civil liability on the part of the service coordination organization in a claim brought by a recipient of services.
[ 2013 c 320 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.320 - Service Coordination Organizations—Accountability Measures. › 70.320.070 - Record retention—Requirements.

RCW 70.320.070
Record retention—Requirements.
The authority, the department, and service contracting entities shall establish record retention schedules for maintaining data reported by service contracting entities under RCW 70.320.020. For data elements related to the identity of individual clients, the schedules may not allow the retention of data for longer than required by law unless the authority, the department, or service contracting entities require the data for purposes contemplated by RCW 70.320.020 or to meet other service requirements. Regardless of how long data reported by service contracting entities under RCW 70.320.020 is kept, it must be protected in a way that prevents improper use or disclosure of confidential client information.
[ 2014 c 225 § 109.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 70 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 70.330 - Diabetes—Planning and Reports. › 70.330.010 - Identification of goals and benchmarks—Agency plans.

RCW 70.330.010
Identification of goals and benchmarks—Agency plans.
The health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health shall collaborate to identify goals and benchmarks while also developing individual agency plans to reduce the incidence of diabetes in Washington, improve diabetes care, and control complications associated with diabetes.
[ 2016 c 56 § 1.]