In order to monitor quality of care and safety of consumers, employment conditions of individual providers, and compliance with the provisions of payment of hours in excess of forty hours each workweek for any single individual provider, the department must provide annual expenditure reports to the legislative fiscal committees and joint legislative-executive overtime oversight task force created under RCW 74.39A.525. The report must contain the following information:
(1) The number of individual providers receiving payment for more than forty hours in a workweek, specifying how many of those individual providers were eligible for those hours due to meeting the conditions of RCW 74.39A.525.
(2) The number of hours paid and the amount paid for hours in excess of forty hours in a workweek, specifying how many of those hours and payments were for individual providers eligible for those hours and payments due to meeting the conditions of RCW 74.39A.525 (1) or (2).
(3) In reporting the information required in subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the department must provide total amounts, averages, and a display of the distribution of the amounts.
(4) The information required must be provided by department region and county of client, department program, and must be specified for individual providers by the number of clients they serve.
(5) Any personally identifiable information of consumers and individual providers used to develop this report is confidential under RCW 43.17.410 and exempt from public disclosure, inspection, or copying in accordance with chapter 42.56RCW. However, information may be released in aggregate form, with any personally identifiable information redacted, for the purpose of statistical analysis and oversight of agency performance and actions.
[ 2018 c 278 § 21; 2016 sp.s. c 30 § 3.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2018 c 278: See note following RCW 74.39A.500.
Effective date—Overtime emergency rules—2016 sp.s. c 30: See notes following RCW 74.39A.270.