DD res. service providers

AN ACT Relating to improving the efficient delivery of services 1
to persons with developmental disabilities by streamlining monitoring 2
and oversight activities related to community residential service 3
business providers; adding a new section to chapter 74.39A RCW; and 4
creating a new section. 5
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:6
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that community 7
residential service business providers, who serve over 87 percent of 8
clients in residential services, play a vital role in ensuring that 9
individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities can live 10
safely and independently in their communities. These providers are 11
subject to multiple audits, reviews, and reporting requirements from 12
various divisions within the department of social and health services 13
and other state and federal oversight entities. While accountability 14
and quality oversight are essential, duplicative and overlapping 15
requirements divert limited administrative resources away from direct 16
client support and create inefficiencies across the system.17
It is the intent of the legislature to streamline, align, and 18
modernize reporting and audit processes for community residential 19
service business providers. The legislature intends that the 20
department of social and health services identify and eliminate 21
H-2580.1
HOUSE BILL 2230
State of Washington 69th Legislature 2026 Regular Session
By Representatives Zahn, Barnard, Ryu, Eslick, Leavitt, Tharinger,
Parshley, Lekanoff, Reed, Duerr, Taylor, Macri, and Bernbaum
Prefiled 12/31/25. Read first time 01/12/26. Referred to Committee
on Early Learning & Human Services.
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redundant or conflicting audit and reporting requirements, 1
consolidate similar reviews where possible, and improve data sharing 2
across and within the department's divisions to reduce administrative 3
burden. 4
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 74.39A 5
RCW to read as follows: 6
(1)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, the 7
department may conduct no more than one annual routine review per 8
community residential service business provider in each of the 9
following subject areas, and shall combine review activities in 10
multiple subject areas where possible: 11
(i) Client finances; 12
(ii) Client service plans; 13
(iii) Federal compliance reviews; 14
(iv) Client community integration; 15
(v) Provider finances; and 16
(vi) General quality assurance. 17
(b) The limitation on routine reviews as described in (a) of this 18
subsection does not apply to activities related to incident reports, 19
complaint investigations, citation follow-up activities, or mortality 20
reviews, or to monitoring and oversight activities that are otherwise 21
required by federal or state law. 22
(2) The department shall adopt administrative rules or department 23
policies that require document and record sharing between and within 24
department divisions when performing monitoring and oversight 25
activities in order to minimize multiple requests for documents or 26
records that have already been provided by a community residential 27
service business provider based on a previous request by the 28
department. The rules or policies may identify exceptions to this 29
requirement for ongoing investigations and other circumstances in 30
which document or record sharing is not possible due to 31
confidentiality requirements. 32
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