Wash. Admin. Code § 246-492-990 - Vital statistics data fees
(1)
The department shall collect nonrefundable fees as follows:
(a) One hundred seventy-five dollars per
preliminary standard data file;
(b)
Three hundred fifty dollars per annual final standard data file;
(c) Two hundred dollar flat fee for up to two
hours of analytic services or general data inquiry requests;
(d) Any analytic services or general data
inquiry requests that exceed two hours, in addition to subsection (1)(b) of
this section, will be charged an hourly fee of one hundred dollars;
and
(e) Fifty dollars per standard
data file for students with proof of valid student status.
(2) For custom data file requests, the
department shall collect nonrefundable fees as follows:
(a) Three hundred fifty dollars per data
file; and
(b) One hundred dollars
per hour to create the custom data file.
(3) For data requests where data files are
provided on a routine schedule, the department shall collect nonrefundable fees
as follows:
(a) A one-time initial automation
program creation fee of one thousand five hundred dollars;
(b) One hundred seventy-five dollars per data
file; and
(c) An annual maintenance
fee of one thousand five hundred dollars.
(4) If a requestor has received all
preliminary data files for a single data set for a single calendar year and has
paid the fees for such data sets required by subsection (1)(a) of this section,
the department may waive the annual final standard file fee in subsection
(1)(b) of this section for the same year and same data set.
(5) For existing data requests with an
established automation program in existence at the time of the adoption of the
rule, the department may waive the initial automation program creation fee of
one thousand five hundred dollars in subsection (3)(a) of this
section.
(6) Updates to data
requests allowed by WAC 246-492-500(2) will be assessed a fee by the department
equivalent to the actual costs incurred by the department in order to update
the data request.
(7) The
department, at the discretion of the state registrar, may waive fees for data
requests for the following:
(a) Requests from
state legislators or legislative staff;
(b) Local health jurisdictions receiving
standard data files prescribed by the state registrar;
(c) Tribes, tribal organizations within the
state, and Indian health service designated tribal epidemiology centers serving
tribes within the state, receiving standard data files prescribed by the state
registrar; and
(d) Government
agencies during a state of emergency, if the data is used for official duties
to aid the state of emergency response.
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