PDFWAC 388-885-035
Reimbursement rate schedule.
When a county submits a reimbursement claim according to this chapter, the claim shall be only for costs incurred as defined in this chapter and for the rates provided in this schedule. This schedule of reimbursement rates is effective as of July 1, 2007.
(1) Attorney per hour rate of eighty-five dollars and sixty-five cents (travel and per diem per state schedule).
(2) Legal assistant/paralegal per hour rate of forty-six dollars (travel and per diem per state schedule).
(3) Investigator per hour rate of forty-six dollars (travel and per diem per state schedule).
(4) Expert service:
(a) Evaluation by expert, the reimbursement for an evaluation, including professional fees, travel, per diem, and all other costs, is capped at ten thousand dollars; and shall be reimbursed at an hourly reimbursement rate of not more than two hundred dollars per hour for evaluation activities including client interviews, document review, report preparations, pretrial discovery activities (including additional document review, compelled interviews and declarations and consultation).
(b) Partial evaluations are capped at five thousand five hundred dollars and shall be reimbursed at an hourly reimbursement rate of not more than two hundred dollars per hour for evaluation activities including client interviews, document review, report preparations, pretrial discovery activities (including additional document review, compelled interviews and declarations and consultation).
(c) Court testimony or depositions by the opposing party, is capped at an hourly reimbursement rate of two hundred fifty dollars per hour or fraction thereof.
(d) Travel time related to court testimony or depositions by the opposing party, is capped at an hourly reimbursement rate of one hundred fifty dollars per hour or fraction thereof.
(e) Exclusive of testimony at trial or depositions, any expert services subsequent to or apart from the evaluation, in addition to the hourly rate caps, is capped at six thousand dollars.
(5) Judge per hour rate of forty-six dollars and five cents.
(6) Court clerk actual hourly salary.
(7) Bailiff actual hourly salary.
(8) Court reporter per hour rate of twenty dollars and seventy-one cents (transcript preparation per page rate of four dollars and thirteen cents).
(9) Expert witnesses' actual cost (travel and per diem per state schedule).
(10) Nonexpert witnesses' actual cost (travel and per diem per state schedule).
(11) Jurors actual compensation (travel and per diem per state schedule).
(12) Jail facilities' daily rate of thirty dollars.
(13) Incidentals - actual costs based on receipts.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 71.09 RCW, RCW 72.01.090, 2010 c 28, 2010 c 37, and Washington state supreme court decision No. 80570-9 re Detention of John L. Strand, filed October 8, 2009. WSR 11-10-086, § 388-885-035, filed 5/4/11, effective 6/4/11. Statutory Authority: Chapter 71.09 RCW and RCW 72.01.090. WSR 08-19-042, § 388-885-035, filed 9/11/08, effective 10/12/08. WSR 99-21-002, recodified as § 388-885-035, filed 10/6/99, effective 10/6/99. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.20A.050. WSR 91-21-027 (Order 3263), § 275-156-035, filed 10/8/91, effective 11/8/91.]