RCW 47.06B.080
Local coordinating coalitions -- Pilot project -- Reports. (Effective until June 30, 2012.)

(1) In addition to the duties identified in RCW 47.06B.070 and 47.06B.075, each local coordinating coalition shall develop or implement a pilot project within the coalition's region, as described under RCW 47.06B.070(1), for the purpose of demonstrating cost sharing and cost saving opportunities as described in subsection (2) of this section, and shall keep the agency council on coordinated transportation informed of progress made toward implementing the pilot project. In developing or implementing the pilot project, the local coordinating coalition shall collaborate with the appropriate federal agencies, including the federal transit authority and United States department of health and human services, and may collaborate with other agencies and organizations as deemed appropriate.

     (2) The pilot project must be designed to:

     (a) Demonstrate opportunities for cost sharing, including but not limited to opportunities among public paratransit and medicaid nonemergency medical trips; and

     (b) Test the feasibility of capturing the value of medicaid trips provided by public transit agencies for which they are not currently reimbursed with a funding match by federal medicaid dollars.

     (3) By December 1, 2009, and by June 1, 2010, each local coordinating coalition shall submit a status report to the joint transportation committee and agency council on coordinated transportation describing progress made in implementing the pilot project. By December 1, 2010, each local coordinating coalition shall issue a final report to the joint transportation committee and the agency council on coordinated transportation describing progress made in implementing the pilot project.

[2009 c 515 § 11.]