Adult Family Homes in Washington State

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

AFH Ownership Transfer Rules Relaxed (slightly)


A revised rule recently signed (Bill 1677) will relax time restrictions that are currently in effect for transferring a currently licensed AFH to another currently licensed provider. The change should become effective after August 6, 2013.

The application for the license transfer must be relative to the change in ownership of existing adult family homes that is currently licensed and IF the department has taken no enforcement actions against the applicant's currently licensed adult family homes during the twelve months prior to application.

Basically, it might just help you go a little faster if you want to buy or sell to another currently licensed provider. It's not new, but simply relaxes the 24 months time restriction previously in place for such transfers of ownership license.

For the fine print, read RCW 70.128.065.