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Bob Ferguson

AGLO 1973 NO. 61 >

(1) RCW 41.05.020 (3) does not require the state employees' insurance board to approve a panel medicine plan for the coverage of state employees residing within the service area covered by such a plan whenever one or more such plans are there available.
 
(2) After the state employees' insurance board has, in fact, granted approval to such a panel medicine plan it may thereafter withdraw approval from this plan.