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Bill Watch
- 2004 Session
Last
updated: 3/8/04
Bolded items are technically dead.
See also:
Bill Watch 2002 |
Bill Watch
2003
| Bill Watch 2005 |
Bill Watch 2006
Washington
State Legislature
It is the policy of the Washington
State Board of Health (Policy 01-001)
to monitor and comment on issues before the Legislature that fall into at
least one of the following four categories.
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Category 1: Impacts
the Board» s statutory authority
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Category 2: Runs
counter to a policy direction the Board has established in rule
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Category 3: Is directly
related to one of the Priority Topics established by the Board each
biennium, as supported by a Board-approved work plan, interim
document, or final report
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Category 4: Is directly
related to a policy issue addressed in a policy statement adopted by the
Board prior to each session
| Bill Number: |
HB
1868 | SB 5791 |
| Short Title: |
Smoking
in public places |
| Prime Sponsor: |
McDermott
| McAuliffe |
|
Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Prohibits
smoking in public places. Repeals RCW 70.160.040 and 70.160.060. |
| Full Text: |
Full
text of SB 5791. |
| Reason for Interest: |
Category
4: Support for bans on public smoking is consistent with
Board's statement of policy on tobacco. |
| Explanation: |
The
bill would remove the exemption from the Clean Indoor Air Act
that allows smoking in specific public places: restaurants,
bars, skating rinks, bowling alleys. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Send letter. |
| Board Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin Back to top
|
|
| Bill
Number: |
HB
1979 | SB 5876 |
| Short
Title: |
Smoking
in public places |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
McDermott
| Oke |
| Status: |
Technically
dead. |
| Digest: |
Provides
that a city, town, or county may restrict or prohibit smoking in
public places situated within its jurisdiction, including but
not limited to restaurants, skating rinks, and bowling alleys,
regardless of whether such restrictions or prohibitions are more
restrictive than those imposed by state law. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB 5876 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
4: Support for bans on public smoking is consistent with
Board's statement of policy on tobacco. |
| Explanation: |
These
bills would make is clear that there is no state preemption of
local authority to ban smoking. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
Back
to top |
|
| Bill Number: |
HB
2460 |
| Short Title: |
Passed.
Partial veto. |
| Prime Sponsor: |
Cody |
| Status: |
Passed
the House with amendments; referred out by Senate Health
& Long-Term Care; sent to Senate Rules for second reading |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full Text: |
Full
text of ESHB 2460. |
| Reason for Interest: |
Category
3 and 4: Efforts to develop a less costly insurance
package for small businesses could jeopardize mandated benefits
for critical preventive services proven to be beneficial and
cost-effective. |
| Explanation: |
See
letter. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept with concerns. |
| Board Action: |
Don
Sloma testified.
Letter
on HB 2460.
Letter on ESHB
2460. |
| Staff Assigned: |
Don Sloma
Back to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SHB
2497 |
| Short
Title: |
Notifying
tribes of significant natural resource-related action by certain
state entities. |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Linville |
| Status: |
Technically
dead. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 2497. |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
1: Would add a new section to chapter 43.20 RCW |
| Explanation: |
Would
require agencies, including SBOH, to consult with the tribes
before taking any significant action. The agencies are expected
to work with the tribes to determine issues such as means of
notification and how the agencies determine which actions are
important enough to the tribes to justify notification. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept. Monitor. |
| Board
Action: |
None. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert Back to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
HB
2569 | SB 6271 |
| Short
Title: |
Requiring
safe drinking water in Washington public schools |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Kenney
| Jacobsen |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SSB 6271. |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
1: Assigns rule making to Department of Health in areas
that are now the purview of SBOH. |
| Explanation: |
Bill
would require DOH to establish standards for drinking water in
public schools. SBOH has rule making authority to establish
minimum exposure standards for drinking water and for school
environmental health. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept. Recommend
amendments. Letter |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert Back to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
HB
2588 |
| Short
Title: |
Concerning
testing for bloodborne pathogens |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Pearson |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Revises
provisions concerning testing for bloodborne pathogens. Provides
that the results of testing for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or
other bloodborne pathogen pursuant to RCW 70.24.340 as requested
by a law enforcement officer, fire fighter, health care
provider, health care facility staff person, or other persons as
defined by the board in rule pursuant to RCW 70.24.340, and
pertaining to a person whose bodily fluids he or she has been
substantially exposed to, may be released to an exposed
individual.
|
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of HB 2588. |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
1: Could require Board rule making. Relates to ongoing
Board process to review laws, rules and procedures related to
HIV/AIDS. |
| Explanation: |
Board
currently adopts rule for source person testing and defines
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) under chapter 70.24 RCW,
the 1988 AIDS Omnibus Act. This would expand source person
testing for occupational exposure to include hepatitis C and
hepatitis B. It would also give SBOH authority to define
bloodborne pathogens as it currently defined STDs.
|
| Recommendation: |
Monitor.
Testify is asked. |
| Board
Action: |
None. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
Back to top |
|
| Bill Number: |
HB
2616 | SB 6275 |
| Short Title: |
Requiring
a finding of necessity for significant legislative rules by
state agencies |
| Prime Sponsor: |
Hatfield
| Morton |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Requires
that, before proposing a new rule or amending an existing rule
that meets the definition of a significant legislative rule
under RCW 34.05.328, a state agency shall adopt a finding of
necessity demonstrating that the new or amended rule is
necessary to implement a new legislative or federal directive,
or is required to fully implement the intent of an existing
state or federal law. Provides that a finding by a superior
court that the state agency failed to comply with the process
for adoption of a finding of necessity under this act renders a
finding of necessity and a significant legislative rule adopted
under it null and void. |
| Full Text: |
Full
text of SB 6275. |
| Reason for Interest: |
Category 1: Adverse impact on rule making. |
| Explanation: |
Would
significantly extend the timeline for and increase the cost of
Board rule making. |
| Recommendation: |
Oppose.
Send letter. |
| Board Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff Assigned: |
Craig
McLaughlin Back to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SHB
2680 | SB 6525 |
| Short
Title: |
Requiring
development of a model policy for nutrition and physical
activity for schools |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Cody
| Johnson |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
HB
2680 digest | SB
6525 digest |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 2680 | Full
text of SB 6525 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Categories
3 and 4: Directly related to Board's work plan on physical
fitness and nutrition. It is consistent with Board's policy
statement. |
| Explanation: |
Would
require the Board to assist with convening of a task force to
develop model policies. School districts would then have to
adopt their own policies. The bills are almost identical and
both are OSPI request legislation, but they are not technically
companions. The Senate version would make the Washington State
School Directors Association the lead agency, while the House
version assigns those duties to DOH. |
| Recommendation: |
Testify.
Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
Don
Sloma testified by request.
See
letter on HB 2680. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Tara Wolff
Back to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
HB
2700 | SSB 6268 |
| Short
Title: |
Permitting
a college or university to maintain a diverse student population
by considering race, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the
admission and transfer process without using quotas,
predetermined points, or set asides. |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Kenney
| Kohl-Welles |
| Status: |
Technically
dead. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of HB 2700 | Full
text of SSB 6268 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3: Directly related to Board's priority work on health
disparities |
| Explanation: |
Initiative
200 prohibited consideration of race as a factor for admission
to state colleges and universities. This bill would specify that
a school may, with specific limitations, consider race, color,
ethnicity, or national origin in its admission or transfer
policies. This could promote efforts to diversity the health
care workforce. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Testify. Letter |
| Board
Action: |
Vickie
Ybarra testified in Senate. Marianne Seifert testified in the house.
See letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SHB
2711 |
| Short
Title: |
Funding
a central resource center for the nursing work force. |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Kenney |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 2711 | Full
text of amendment |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3: Directly related to Board's priority work on health
disparities. |
| Explanation: |
Proposes
a licensing surcharge to fund a variety of efforts to address
the nursing shortage. Bill can be strengthened to specifically
address diversity. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept; recommend amendment. Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert
Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
HB
2760 |
| Short
Title: |
Providing
for healthy foods for school children |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Schual-Berke |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of HB 2760 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3: Directly related to Board's work plan on physical fitness
and nutrition. |
| Explanation: |
Establishes
specific nutritional standards for competitive foods served in
schools and restricts the beverages that can be sold in schools
during school hours. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept with concerns. Testify. Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
Don
Sloma testified by request.
See letter. |
| Staff Assigned: |
Tara Wolff
Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SHB
2772 |
| Short
Title: |
Controlling
genetic information |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Schual-Berke |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 2772 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3:
Directly relates to Board's priority work on Genetic and
Privacy. |
| Explanation: |
Would
implement many of the recommendations of the Genetics Task Force. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Send letter. Testify. |
| Board
Action: |
Don
Sloma testified.
See letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Don Sloma Back
to top |
|
|
Bill Number: |
HB
2785 | SB 6551 |
|
Short Title: |
Increasing
access to health insurance coverage |
|
Prime Sponsor: |
Cody
| Thibaudeau |
|
Status: |
Technically
dead. |
|
Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
|
Full Text: |
Full
text of SB 6551 |
|
Reason for Interest: |
Categories
3 and 4: Directly relates to Board's priority work on Access and
Board's policy statements. |
|
Explanation: |
See
letter. |
|
Recommendation: |
Support
concept with concerns. Send letter. |
|
Board Action: |
See
letter. |
|
Staff Assigned: |
Don Sloma Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SHB
2797 |
| Short
Title: |
Increasing
access to health insurance options for certain persons eligible for
the Federal Health Coverage Tax Credit under the Trade Act of 2002
(P.L. 107-210). |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Morrell |
| Status: |
Technically
dead. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 2797 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Categories
3 and 4: Directly relates to Board's priority work on Access and
Board's policy statements. |
| Explanation: |
See
letter. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept with concerns. Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Don Sloma Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
HB
2798 |
| Short
Title: |
Stabilizing
the health insurance market and providing coverage for uninsured
individuals |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Cody |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of HB 2798 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Categories
3 and 4: Directly relates to Board's priority work on Access and
Board's policy statements. |
| Explanation: |
See
letter. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept with concerns. Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Don Sloma Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
HB
2955 |
| Short
Title: |
Creating
a joint task force on K-12 finance |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Hunter |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Finds
that more than a quarter of a century has passed since the current
school finance system was first created, and that the challenges
facing our schools and students have grown and changed dramatically
during that time. Declares an intent to examine the school finance
system to determine whether it is appropriately linked to the demands
of education reform and to the goal of providing all children in the
state the opportunity to meet standards. Creates the joint task force
on K-12 finance to study the common school finance system and to
develop alternative funding models. Requires the task force to report
findings and recommendations to the legislature by October 1, 2006. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 2955 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3: Relates to Board's work on school environmental health. |
| Explanation: |
This
would create a task force on restructuring school finance. Recommend
amendment to look at designating funds specifically for school
facility construction, maintenance, repair and renovation to ensure
health and safe learning environments. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept, recommend amendment. Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert Back to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
HB
3110 |
| Short
Title: |
Providing
for an emergency school repair and renovation account |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Cox |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Creates
the Washington emergency school repair and renovation grant program to
help class two school districts pay for any nonrecurring costs
associated with urgent facilities repairs and renovations related to
health and safety risks, fire and building code deficiencies, access
for disabled students, and asbestos abatement or removal. Requires the
office of the superintendent of public instruction to administer the
program. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SHB 3110 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3: Relates to Board's work on school environmental health. |
| Explanation: |
Could
provide funding for things such as roof repairs that could address
or prevent environmental health problems. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept. Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
Marianne
Seifert testified.
See letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SSB
5436 |
| Short
Title: |
Regarding
foods and beverages sold at public schools |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Kohl-Welles |
| Status: |
Passed.
Signed by Governor. |
| Digest: |
Finds
that, while the United States department of agriculture
regulates the nutritional content of meals sold in schools under
its school breakfast and lunch program, limited standards are in
place to regulate "competitive foods," which are often
high in added sugars, sodium, and saturated fat content.
However, the United States department of agriculture does call
for states and local entities to add restrictions on competitive
foods, as necessary. Provides that, at elementary and middle
schools, the sale of all foods on school grounds during regular
school hours shall be approved for compliance with the nutrition
standards in this act by the person or persons responsible for
implementing these provisions as designated by the school
district. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SSB 5436 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3: Directly related to Board's work plan on physical fitness
and nutrition. |
| Explanation: |
First
substitute contains
provisions similar to those in SB 6525
except the Board is not names as part of the task force. Staff
testified before House Education requesting amendment. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept. Testify. Submit letter. |
| Board
Action: |
Craig
McLaughlin testified in House.
See
Senate letter on SB 5436. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Tara Wolff
Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SB
6180 |
| Short
Title: |
Prohibiting
the use of genetic information in employment decisions |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Franklin |
| Status: |
Passed
and signed by Governor. |
| Digest: |
Provides
that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or
the state of Washington, its political subdivisions, or
municipal corporations to require, directly or indirectly, that
any employee or prospective employee submit genetic information
or submit to screening for genetic information as a condition of
employment or continued employment. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of ESB 6180 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3: Related to Genetics and Privacy priority project. |
| Explanation: |
Would
implement a recommendation of the Genetics Task Force. Amended
on the Senate floor to exclude certain tests from the definition
of medical examination. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
Letter
on SB 6180 |
Letter on ESB 6180 |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Don Sloma Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SB
6181 |
| Short
Title: |
Including
genetic information as a protected category in the law against
discrimination |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Franklin |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Includes
genetic information as a protected category in the law against
discrimination. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB 6181 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3: Related to Genetics and Privacy priority project.. |
| Explanation: |
Would
implement a recommendation of the Genetics Task Force. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Send letter if scheduled for hearing. |
| Board
Action: |
|
| Staff
Assigned: |
Don Sloma Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SB
6231 |
| Short
Title: |
Prohibiting
smoking in public places |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Franklin |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Recognizes
the increasing evidence that secondhand tobacco smoke creates a danger
to the health of the citizens of this state. In order to protect the
health and welfare of those citizens, it is necessary to prohibit
smoking in public places. Provides that a person who violates RCW
70.160.050 is guilty of an infraction punishable by: (1) A warning to
the owner or person in charge for the first violation that occurs
within a calendar year; (2) A fine not exceeding one hundred dollars
for a second violation that occurs within a calendar year; and (3) A
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars for each additional violation
that occurs within a calendar year. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB 6231 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
4: Support for bans on public smoking is consistent with
Board's statement of policy on tobacco. |
| Explanation: |
Bill
would ban smoking in all public facilities, closing current
exemptions under the clean air act for bars, taverns, bowling
alleys, skating rinks, and eliminating designated smoking sections. |
| Recommendation: |
Support. Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SB
6294 |
| Short
Title: |
Increasing the
physical activity of the citizens of Washington State |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Franklin |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Finds
that providing opportunities for walking, biking, and other regular
forms of exercise is best accomplished through collaboration between
the private sector and local, state, and institutional policymakers.
This collaboration can build communities where people find it easy and
safe to be physically active. Declares an intent to promote policy and
planning efforts that increase access to inexpensive or free
opportunities for regular exercise in all communities around the
state. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB 6294 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Categories
1 and 3: Would change the Board's statutory powers and duties. Directly
related to the Board's priority work on children's physical activity
and nutrition. |
| Explanation: |
This
is a forward-looking bill that addresses the connection between the
built environment and opportunities for regular exercise. Broad
grant of authority to the Board to make rules "for the
prevention and control of obesity, including setting nutrition and
physical activity standards aimed at reducing the proportion of
citizens who are obese" seems very broad considering the lack
of rule-making precedents and the absence of legislative guidance
about how to exercise such authority. Also, current Board efforts
are focused on opportunities to find solutions without imposing
mandates. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept with concerns. Testify. |
| Board
Action: |
Craig
McLaughlin signed in to testify but was not called. See letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Tara Wolff
Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SB
6330 |
| Short
Title: |
Providing
funds to enforce the tobacco sampling statutes |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Oke |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Imposes
a tax on persons engaged in the business of sampling. The tax shall
equal one dollar per sample distributed by the sampler. Creates the
tobacco sampling enforcement account in the custody of the state
treasurer. All receipts from the tax imposed in this act must be
deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used
only for the enforcement of the tax provisions of this act and the
enforcement of the sampling provisions of chapter 70.155 RCW. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB
6330 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
4: Efforts to reduce distribution of free tobacco products,
especially to minors, is consistent with
Board's statement of policy on tobacco. |
| Explanation: |
Revenue
from a $1 tax on each sample would to use to enforce restrictions on
distribution of samples to minors. |
| Recommendation: |
Oppose. |
| Board
Action: |
Opposition
noted in
letter on SB 6231. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SB
6377 |
| Short
Title: |
Revising
provisions relating to renewal of transient accommodation licenses |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Honeyford |
| Status: |
Passed
and signed by Governor. |
| Digest: |
Requires
all applications for renewal of licenses to be postmarked no later
than midnight on the date the license expires. All applications for
renewal of licenses that are personally presented to the department or
sent by electronic means must be received by the department by 5:00
p.m. on the date the license expires. |
| Full
Text: |
Full text of SSB
6377 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
1: Would require Board to change transient accommodations rule |
| Explanation: |
Current
deadlines are in Board rule, while late fee is set in DOH rule. |
| Recommendation: |
Neutral.
Monitor. |
| Board
Action: |
None. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
Back
to top |
|
| Bill
Number: |
SB 6523 |
| Short
Title: |
Improving the delivery of
health care services to school children |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Deccio |
| Status: |
Technically dead. |
| Digest: |
Finds that additional school
nurses with the appropriate expertise are needed in our schools to
play a pivotal role in improving the health and educational success of
the school-age child. Appropriates the sum of forty-five thousand
dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 2005, from the general fund to the office of the
superintendent of public instruction for the purpose of funding a
position to pursue grants and obtain funds for the school nurse
account. Creates the school nurse account in the custody of the state
treasurer. All receipts from gifts, grants, or endowments obtained
under this act must be deposited into the account. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SB
6523 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Categories 3 and 4:
Consistent with policy statement and Board's priority work on school
health. |
| Explanation: |
Has the potential to
increase the number of school nurses. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Send letter. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Tara Wolff
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| Bill
Number: |
SSB
6636 |
| Short
Title: |
Regulating the
disposal of animals |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Rasmussen |
| Status: |
Vetoed by Governor. |
| Digest: |
View
digest on line. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SSB 6636 | Full
text of amendment |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
1: Would have transferred current SBOH rule making authority to
DOH. This oversight fixed in substitute. Would likely require Board
rule making. |
| Explanation: |
Would
require formation of an interagency workgroup to develop an
comprehensive statewide strategy to dispose of animal carcasses.
Original bill called for DOH to adopt rules for disposal if federal regulations are
insufficient. The current sanitation rules, which cover animal
carcass disposal, rest on the Board's general statutory authority.
Rule making language changed to reflect Board's role in SSB 6636. |
| Recommendation: |
Support
concept.
Send letter. Recommend amendment to change authority and addition of
Board to the interagency workgroup. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter to Senate and
see letter to
House. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Craig McLaughlin
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| Bill
Number: |
SCR
8419 |
| Short
Title: |
Creating a joint
select committee on health disparities. |
| Prime
Sponsor: |
Franklin |
| Status: |
Passed. |
| Digest: |
Creates a joint select committee on health disparities to identify
opportunities for improving health care status and addressing health
disparities in communities of color. |
| Full
Text: |
Full
text of SCR 8419 |
| Reason
for Interest: |
Category
3:
Directly relates to Board's priority work on health disparities. |
| Explanation: |
Committee
would look at a variety of issues, including workforce diversity. |
| Recommendation: |
Support.
Testify. Send joint letter with DOH. |
| Board
Action: |
See
letter. Marianne Seifert testified in House; Craig McLaughlin
signed in to testify in Senate but was not called. |
| Staff
Assigned: |
Marianne Seifert
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