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Bill Watch
- 2002 Session
Last
updated: 3/1/02
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2003
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Washington
State Legislature
| Bill Number: |
HB 1328
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| Short Title: |
Requiring registration of school health aides |
| Prime Sponsor: |
Cody |
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Status: |
Did not make it out of fiscal
committee by cutoff. |
| Digest: |
Declares that no certificated or noncertificated
school district employee may practice or represent himself or herself as a school health
aide by use of any title or description of services without being registered to practice
by the [health] department, unless otherwise exempted by this act. |
| Full Text: |
Full text of HB 1328 |
| Reason for Interest: |
Could precipitate Sunrise Review. Related to Board priority Children’s Health
and Well Being. |
| Explanation: |
Establishes another registered profession—home
health aide. Could improve number of trained caregivers and quality of care in schools
unable to recruit school nurses. Could also encourage districts to hire aides instead of
nurses and have a nurse oversee multiple aides. Implications for Board’s
Children’s Health priority may depend on role of school health personnel in
implementing list of Children’s Clinical Preventive Services.
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| Recommendation: |
Support in concept. |
| Board Action: |
Letter
from Linda Lake sent 2001 session |
| Staff Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin Back to top
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| Bill
Number: |
HB
1549 | SB 5296 |
| Short
Title: |
Limiting minors'
access to tobacco |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Schual-Berke |
Thibaudeau |
| Status: |
Neither bill made it
out of the house of origin by cutoff. |
| Digest: |
Declares that,
beginning January 1, 2002, self-service displays of tobacco
products are prohibited. All in-store tobacco products must be
sold from behind the counter or from within locked display
units. Does not apply to retailers who sell tobacco products
exclusively. Does not apply to sales from within premises where
minors are prohibited by statute. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB
1549 | Full
text of SB
5296 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Consistent with
menu of Critical Access Services. |
| Explanation: |
See letter. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter
from Linda Lake |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
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| Bill Number: |
HB 1759 |
| Short Title: |
Sale of hypodermic syringes |
| Prime Sponsor: |
Darneille |
| Status: |
Passed both chambers in 2001
session but Senate
and House were unable to concur on amendments. Revived in House
for 2002 and passed. Significantly amended in Senate Health & Long-Term Care
along lines suggested by Board Member Tom Locke. |
| Digest: |
Declares that it is lawful for
any person over the age of eighteen to purchase up to ten
sterile hypodermic "safety" syringes and needles from
a pharmacist for the purpose of reducing bloodborne diseases
such as HIV and hepatitis. |
| Full Text: |
Full
text of SHB 1759 | Text
of Senate amendments |
| Reason for Interest: |
Communicable
disease prevention. |
| Explanation: |
See text of letter. |
| Recommendation: |
Update letter from Tom Locke and
sent to Senate committee. |
| Board Action: |
Letter
from Tom Locke. |
| Staff Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
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| Bill
Number: |
HB 2323 |
| Short
Title: |
Direct retail license for
commercial fishers |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Hatfield |
| Status: |
Passed the House;
referred out with do pass as amended recommendation Senate Natural Resources, Parks, and Shorelines. |
| Digest: |
Requires the Department of
Fish and Wildlife to establish and administer a direct retail
license to serve as a single license that permits the holder of
a Washington commercial fishing license to process and sell his
or her catch directly to consumers at retail, including over the
internet. The direct retail license must be issued as an
optional addition to all commercial
food fish or shellfish licenses that the department offers under
chapter 77.65 RCW. Authorizes the department of health to
develop health-based standards relating to the processing and
retail sale of food fish and shellfish by the holders of a
direct retail license. These standards may be developed in
consultation with the department, the department of agriculture,
any of the local health departments in the state, and any public
health professional. The standards should be developed to
protect, to the extent possible, the health of the retail
consumer. The standards may vary according to the product being
processed or sold by the holder of a direct retail license.
Takes effect April 1, 2003. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 2323
| Senate
amendments |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Direct impact on Board rules
for shellfish and food service establishments. |
| Explanation: |
Original bill would have required DOH to develop
rules specific to retail sales by commercial fishers that might supercede SBOH
food rules and shellfish already in place. Bill was amended in
House to require
compliance with existing Board rules and to exclude shellfish.
Also amended in Senate to apply only to salmon and crab. |
| Recommendation: |
Neutral. Letter from Board
member suggesting technical amendments reflecting Board's
existing authority and rules. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter from Linda Lake. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin Back to top |
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| Bill
Number: |
HB 2325 |
| Short
Title: |
Donation and distribution of
food |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Wood |
| Status: |
Substitute version
passed House. Passed Senate with amendments. Requires
concurrence. |
| Digest: |
Declares that the purpose of
this act is to authorize and facilitate the donation of food to
needy persons in accordance with safety and health guidelines to
assure that the donated food will not place needy recipients at
risk and to encourage charitable organizations, businesses, and
individuals to donate surplus food to charities serving our
state's needy population. Requires the state board of health to
promulgate recommended health and safety guidelines for the
donation, preparation, and distribution of free food for the
purposes of this act. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 2325
| Senate
amendments |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Would require Board to draft
new guidelines and necessitate rule review. |
| Explanation: |
As originally
written, food donations would be
allowed unless expressly prohibited by Board rules. Bill
allows for more stringent local rules, but original bill
required
approval of local board of health and ratification by political
subdivisions (substitute requires notification of subdivisions). Board would have to write
guidelines that may be enforceable, and hence not really
guidelines.
Board would likely have to open up existing rules and develop
new rules governing dangerous practices that would be expressly
prohibited for donated foods. Amended in Senate to have Board
develop rules along with existing food code revisions regulating
organizations that accept and distribute food donations. DOH
would develop guidelines for food donors. |
| Recommendation: |
Support concept with concerns;
letter from Board member; staff testify if asked at House
hearing; testify at Senate on House bill. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter from Carl Osaki. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert Back to top |
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| Bill
Number: |
HB 2462
| HB 2834 | 1SB 6523 |
| Short
Title: |
Life threatening conditions in
school |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Schual-Berke | McAuliffe |
| Status: |
HB 2834 passed in House
and referred out of Senate Education with a do pass
recommendation. SB 6523 passed Senate but not referred out by
House Health Care. |
| Digest: |
Provides that the attendance
of every child at every public school in the state shall be
conditioned upon the presentation before or on each child's
first day of attendance at a particular school of a physician's
medication or treatment order addressing any life-threatening
health condition that the child has that may require medical
services to be performed at the school. Once such an order has
been presented, the child shall be allowed to attend school. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB
2834 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Original House bill
had given Board new rule making
responsibility. |
| Explanation: |
Original House version, HB
2462, would have require Board to write
rule defining "life-threatening condition." SHB 2834
defines term in bill. SB 6523 required Board of
Education to define term in consultation with Department of Health.
The was amended in the substitute version do be OSPI with DOH. |
| Recommendation: |
Support in concept; recommend
amendment; letter from Board member |
| Board
Action: |
Letter from Vickie
Ybarra. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Doreen Garcia
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| Bill Number: |
HB 2499 |
| Short Title: |
Sanitation and safety in
health studios |
| Prime Sponsor: |
Hunt |
| Status: |
Not referred out
before cutoff by House
Commerce & Labor. |
| Digest: |
Declares that it is in the
interests of the public health, safety, and welfare to establish
requirements and guidelines for the maintenance of minimum
sanitary conditions and infection control in health studios in
order to assist these facilities in providing a healthy
environment for patrons with an interest in improving their
health status. |
| Full Text: |
Full
text of HB 2499 |
| Reason for Interest: |
Would have required Department of
health to draft
new rules that might negate existing Board rules. |
| Explanation: |
Board's water recreation rules
apply to pools and spas. Bill would require department to write
new rules for pools, spas, saunas, steam rooms, and shower
facilities in health and fitness clubs. |
| Recommendation: |
Letter from Linda Lake; staff
available for questions at hearing. |
| Board Action: |
Letter from Linda Lake. |
| Staff Assigned: |
Craig
McLaughlin Back to top |
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| Bill
Number: |
HB 2596
| SB 6588 |
| Short
Title: |
Food service rule |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Linville | Rasmussen |
| Status: |
SB 6588 passed Senate.
Referred out with do pass recommendation by House Agriculture
& International Trade. |
| Digest: |
Declares that, effective July
1, 2004, the state board of health has the sole rule-making
authority to adopt food service rules for retail food
facilities, and the standards and rules adopted by and
interpretations of the state board of health shall be exclusive
for food service at retail food facilities. Provides that, after
June 30, 2004, local health departments shall administer the
state food service rules and interpretations, except as provided
for in this act. Requires that, by December 1, 2003, the state
board of health shall adopt updated food service rules.
Periodically after July 1, 2004, the state board of health shall
review and update the rules in consultation with local boards of
health and the regulated community. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB 6588 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Direct impact on Board rule. |
| Explanation: |
Original bill would have mandated that Board draft
new food code by December 1, 2003, become sole interpreter of food
code, and review local emergency exemptions within two months. Substitute
Senate Bill gives Board 180 days to review local exemptions, extends
deadline for adopting food code to December 31, 2004, and gives department sole
authority to interpret code. House amendments allow Board to
grant temporary or permanent extensions for local emergency
amendments when there is demonstrated need. |
| Recommendation: |
Letter; staff available at hearings to testify. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter
from Linda Lake and Carl Osaki |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert
Back to top |
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| Bill
Number: |
HB 2622
| SB 6590 |
| Short
Title: |
Children's oral health |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Quall | McAuliffe |
| Status: |
House version did not
pass. Senate version passed but was not referred out by House Health
Care before cutoff. |
| Digest: |
Declares that measures such as
oral health screenings and access to oral health disease
prevention methods should be readily available to children in a
variety of health care settings, including dental, medical
clinic, and family physician settings. If prevention methods are
employed, there will be substantial savings to the state's
overburdened health care system. Encourages the superintendent
of public instruction, the department of health, and the
department of social and health services to collectively and
collaboratively develop a plan that promotes age appropriate
oral health screenings and preventive services at age one and at
age five, or before entering a public or private school setting.
The departments may report to the legislature on their findings
and recommendations. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB
6590 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Children's Health and
Well-Being priority work area. |
| Explanation: |
Would require DSHS, OSPI, DOH
to collaborate on plan, mandate that DSHS train primary care
providers to do oral health assessments, and ask DOH to
encourage oral health coordinators in all local health
jurisdictions. |
| Recommendation: |
Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter
from Vickie Ybarra. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin Back
to top |
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| Bill
Number: |
HCR 4422 |
| Short
Title: |
Health care workforce
commission |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Schual-Berke |
| Status: |
Did not make it out of fiscal committee by cutoff. |
| Digest: |
Establishes the health care
work force commission. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHCR
4422 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Board priority Health
Disparities. |
| Explanation: |
Establishes a commission to
develop a strategic plan to ensure adequate supply of health
care personnel. Charge includes recommending ways to increase
diversity. Board was added to committee in substitute version. |
| Recommendation: |
Support. Recommend amendments
for Board participation and to strengthen diversity aspect of
charge. Letter from Vickie Ybarra. Staff testify at hearing. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter
from Vickie Ybarra. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
Back
to top |
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| Bill
Number: |
SB 5207
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| Short
Title: |
Privacy of genetic information |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Hargrove |
| Status: |
Passed Senate in 2001
session, but
did not make it out of committee in the House. Revived in 2002
and passed. Passed by Senate with amendments. Requires
concurrence. |
| Digest: |
Not available. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB
5207 | House
amendment |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Related to Board priority area—Genetics |
| Explanation: |
Original bill would
have established a commission on genetics with similar charge to
Board's Genetics Task Force. House amendments struck commission
language and instead added genetic information to definition of
health information in health information privacy statute. |
| Recommendation: |
Testify about work of
Genetic Task Force. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter from Linda Lake sent
in 2001. Don Sloma testified before House Health Care in 2002. |
| Staff Assigned: |
Don Sloma
Back
to top |
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| Bill
Number: |
SB 6356
| HB 2885 |
| Short
Title: |
Creating the children's
environmental health and protection advisory council |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Franklin |
Schual-Berke |
| Status: |
SB 6356
passed Senate and referred out by House Health Care. Sent to
House Appropriations but not referred out before cutoff. |
| Digest: |
Creates the children's
environmental health and protection advisory council. Requires
the council to report to the governor by December 1, 2002, and
each December thereafter with recommendations on changes in
regulation that would reduce children's exposure to
environmental hazards. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of 6356 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Assigns
significant new work to the Board. Related to Board priorities Environmental
Health, Health Disparities, Environmental Justice, Children's
Health and Well Being. |
| Explanation: |
Establishes an
advisory council that
would make recommendations about protecting children from
environmental exposures. Includes focus on environmental justice.
Substitute version requires Board to staff committee and allows
it to solicit and spend external funds to do so. Reporting
deadline extended to December 1, 2003. Amendment in Ways &
Means adds 2005 sunset clause. House amendments would not
require council to begin meeting until 2003 and would require
funding to come from outside sources or existing agency funds. |
| Recommendation: |
Support original
bill. Recommend role for Board.
Send letter. Staff testify at hearing.
Support concept on substitute bill. Request null and void
clause if Board cannot raise private funds after making a
reasonable effort. Testify at hearing. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter
on original version from Carl Osaki and Vickie
Ybarra.
Letter on substitute version from Carl Osaki and Vickie
Ybarra. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert Back
to top |
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