H-3328.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2230
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2026 Regular Session
By House Early Learning & Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Zahn, Barnard, Ryu, Eslick, Leavitt, Tharinger, Parshley, Lekanoff, Reed, Duerr, Taylor, Macri, and Bernbaum)
READ FIRST TIME 02/03/26.
AN ACT Relating to improving the efficient delivery of services to persons with developmental disabilities by streamlining monitoring and oversight activities related to community residential service business providers; adding a new section to chapter 74.39A RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that community residential service business providers, who serve over 87 percent of clients in residential services, play a vital role in ensuring that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities can live safely and independently in their communities. These providers are subject to multiple audits, reviews, and reporting requirements from various divisions within the department of social and health services and other state and federal oversight entities. While accountability and quality oversight are essential, duplicative and overlapping requirements divert limited administrative resources away from direct client support and create inefficiencies across the system.
It is the intent of the legislature to streamline, align, and modernize reporting and audit processes for community residential service business providers. The legislature intends that the department of social and health services identify and eliminate redundant or conflicting audit and reporting requirements, consolidate similar reviews where possible, and improve data sharing across and within the department's divisions to reduce administrative burden.