2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 48.46.023: Agent — Definition — License required — Application, issuance, renewal, fees — Penalties involving license.

(1) Agent, as used in this chapter, means any person appointed or authorized by a health maintenance organization to solicit applications for health care service agreements on its behalf.

     (2) No person shall act as or hold himself out to be an agent of a health maintenance organization unless licensed as a disability insurance agent by this state and appointed or authorized by the health maintenance organization on whose behalf solicitations are to be made.

     (3) Applications, appointments, and qualifications for licenses, the renewal thereof, the fees and issuance of a license, and the renewal thereof shall be in accordance with the provisions of chapter 48.17 RCW that are applicable to a disability insurance agent.

     (4) A person holding a valid license in this state as a health maintenance organization agent on July 24, 1983, is not required to requalify by an examination for the renewal of the license.

     (5) The commissioner may revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew any agent's license, or levy a fine upon the licensee, in accordance with those provisions of chapter 48.17 RCW that are applicable to a disability insurance agent.

[1983 c 202 § 8.]