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Bisphenol A in products, prohibition: 2SHB 1180
Bisphenol A in products, prohibition and alternatives: HB 1180, SHB 1180, SB 5282
Bisphenol A in products, prohibitions, violations, and penalties: SSB 5282
Hazardous substances information to be provided by hazardous substance information and education office: SB 5756
Hazardous substances, disclosure requirements prior to placement upon, ingestion by, or injection into another person: SB 5756
Local toxics control account, priority consideration for loans and grants to be given to local governments: SB 5181
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Cleanup and compliance at facilities with large releases of hazardous wastes, provisions: HB 2150
Cleanup for waste sites, applicability of radioactive waste clean-up business and occupation tax classification to kinds of work performed at Hanford site: SHB 1321, SB 6170, * ESSB 6170, CH 469 (2009)
Cleanup for waste sites, reduced business and occupation tax rate for cleanup at Hanford and other nuclear sites: HB 1321, SB 5390
Environmental cleanup opportunity grant program and account, higher education coordinating board to award conditional scholarships: HB 1594
Hanford Reservation, full federal funding for cleanup: SJM 8008
Local toxics control account, priority consideration for loans and grants to be given to local governments: SB 5181
Mercury and mercury-added general purpose lights, provisions for sales, recycling, and disposal: HB 1799, SHB 1799, HB 1809, SB 5813
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               (See also HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS)
Abortion, informed consent and related provisions in the case of minor females and females subject to guardianship: HB 1688
Acupuncture profession, name of and titles within modified: HB 1390, SB 5320
Acupuncture quality assurance commission, creation: HB 1398, SB 5535
Advanced diagnostic imaging services, work group appointed by legislative leaders to identify best practice guidelines: HB 2105, * ESHB 2105, CH 258 (2009), SB 5981
Advanced registered nurse practitioners, mental health care involving commitment: HB 1071, * SHB 1071, CH 217 (2009)
AIDS program grants, consolidation of administrative services in department of health: HB 2360
Alternative health care practitioners, practice requirements: SB 5755
Autism spectrum disorders, insurance coverage: HB 1210, SB 5203
Cancer treatments, coverage to provide financial parity for cancer chemotherapy and oral anticancer medication costs: SB 5512
Certificate of need program for health facilities and services, abolished: HB 1867
Charity care, requirements for hospitals: SB 5347
Children, affordable nonsubsidized state coverage for children: HB 1237, SB 5202
Children, developmental screenings through medicaid program: HB 1337
Colon hydrotherapy, indirect supervision by naturopath of unlicensed practitioner performing procedure: HB 2004, SHB 2004
Community health care collaborative grant program, established: HB 1620, SB 5360, * SSB 5360, CH 299 (2009) PV
Complementary and alternative health care practitioners, practice requirements: HB 1861
Comprehensive health options, incentives, and consumer empowerment (CHOICE) act: HB 2174
Consent for medical or dental care by a minor, conditions: HB 2073
Contracts for health care with a health care provider, required provisions: HB 2213
Core benefit plans for state employees, health savings accounts in the form of: HB 1870
Cosmetic medical services, modifying taxation of certain: HB 2221
Cost information, all fees and charges for services and procedures to be disclosed by provider: HB 1869, * SHB 1869, CH 529 (2009)
Critical access hospitals not subject to certificate of need review under some circumstances: EHB 1460, * ESB 5423, CH 54 (2009)
Developmental screenings for children, public medical assistance to include: SB 5484, SSB 5484, 2SSB 5484
Direct patient-provider primary care practices, payment arrangements: HB 1459, SB 5436, * SSB 5436, CH 552 (2009) PV
Drug overdose prevention, limited liability from prosecution for people who seek medical assistance in an overdose situation: HB 1615, SB 5516
Drug overdose, seeking treatment for self or other: SHB 1796
Drug overdose, seeking treatment in good faith for self or other: HB 1796
Drugs, disposal of unwanted drugs by pharmaceutical product stewardship programs: HB 1165, SHB 1165, 2SHB 1165, SB 5279
Durable medical equipment, tax exemptions when prescribed for home use: HB 1411, HB 1485, SB 5033
Electronic registry of emergency contact persons, to be accessed by health care providers or law enforcement officers: HB 1278
Emergency medical care and services, property tax limit for levies to fund: HB 1318, SB 5143
Employees, hours of labor: SB 5563, SSB 5563
Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine, reclassified as schedule III controlled substances: HB 1236
Eye care, insurance plan enrollees to have direct access to medical eye care providers without prior referral: HB 1396
Facilities construction and development, certificate of need program: HB 1777, * SB 5673, CH 315 (2009)
Facility initial medicare certification surveys, fee requirement: HB 2296
Family and medical leave act of 2007, repealed: SB 5558
Family and medical leave, provisions of family security act: HB 1609, SB 5679
Federal financing of health care, department of social and health services to request further funding for certain programs: SB 5730, SSB 5730
Financing, tax revenues and accounts to fund: HB 1892, SB 6093, SB 6094
Genetic counselors, licensing: HB 1723, SB 5608, * SSB 5608, CH 302 (2009) PV
Health care assistants, administration of medications and vaccines: HB 1414, * SHB 1414, CH 43 (2009), SB 5852
Health care facility employees, expanding the application of the prohibition on mandatory overtime: HB 1850
Health care facility employees, limiting exceptions to prohibition on mandatory overtime: HB 1680, SHB 1680
Health care facility employees, meal and rest periods: HB 1642
Health care trust account, funding for various health care programs to be appropriated from: HB 2377, SHB 2377
Health information technology, uniform national standard of interoperability compliance date: * SJM 8003 (2009)
Health maintenance organizations, maximum capital and reserves accumulations: HB 1858
Health services account, elimination: HB 1453, SB 5408
Health technology assessment program, health care authority and health technology clinical committee roles in assessment process: SB 6150
Health technology clinical committee, review process for health technology: SB 6026
HIV early intervention program steering committee, dissolution and assumption of duties and powers by HIV/AIDS education program review panel: SSB 5589
Holistic medicine, work group to study: HB 1032
Hospice care agencies, certificate of need exemption when serving unique needs of religious groups or ethnic minorities: HB 1926, * ESHB 1926, CH 89 (2009)
Immunization of children, required documentation for exemption from: HB 1703, ESHB 1703, SB 5707
Immunizations, increasing annual immunization rates: SB 5848
Influenza vaccination pilot program, school-based: HB 1282, SHB 1282, SB 5372
Information, sharing to promote coordination of behavioral and medical care services: * HB 2025, CH 398 (2009)
Insurance, access for small employers and their employees: HB 1868
Insurance, adult family home provider health benefits collective bargaining: HB 2158, SB 5787
Insurance, association health plan carrier data reporting: SHB 1714
Insurance, association health plan premium rates: HB 1714
Insurance, association health plan provisions: HB 1712
Insurance, autism spectrum disorders: HB 1210, SB 5203
Insurance, basic health plan eligibility revisions: SB 6154
Insurance, basic health plan modified to include economic recovery enrollees: HB 2117, SB 6038, SSB 6038, 2SSB 6038
Insurance, basic health plan option for enrollees wishing to purchase individual health insurance: HB 2169
Insurance, basic health plan program changes necessary to implement 2009-2011 operating budget: HB 2341, * SHB 2341, CH 568 (2009)
Insurance, business and occupation tax credit for certain employers providing health care insurance for employees: HB 1872
Insurance, carriers allowed to implement alternative methods of communicating information to enrollees: * SB 5731, CH 304 (2009)
Insurance, comprehensive health options, incentives, and consumer empowerment (CHOICE) act: HB 2174
Insurance, coverage deductions allowed for calculation of disposable income for senior property tax programs: SB 5662
Insurance, coverage for amino acid-based elemental formulas for infants and children: SB 5814
Insurance, coverage for surgical treatment of morbid obesity: SB 6052, SSB 6052
Insurance, coverage to provide financial parity for cancer chemotherapy and oral anticancer medication costs: SB 5512
Insurance, eligibility for Washington state health insurance pool: HB 1713, SHB 1713, SB 5777, * SSB 5777, CH 555 (2009)
Insurance, enforcement of primacy of coverage when third-party liability exists regarding claims under plans administered by the state: HB 2330
Insurance, enlisted Washington national guard members: HB 1125, SB 5275
Insurance, enrollees to have direct access to medical eye care providers without prior referral: HB 1396
Insurance, exemptions from filling out standard health questionnaire: HB 1401, * ESHB 1401, CH 42 (2009), SB 5406, ESSB 5406
Insurance, guaranteed health benefit program created: HB 2121
Insurance, guaranteed health benefits board created: HB 2121
Insurance, health benefit plan coverage of neurodevelopmental therapies: HB 1412, SHB 1412
Insurance, health care authority to convene work group concerning health benefits for K-12 employees: 2SSB 5491
Insurance, health care discount plan organizations: HB 2012, SB 5480, * SSB 5480, CH 175 (2009)
Insurance, health care insurance partnership timeline revisions: HB 2052, * SHB 2052, CH 257 (2009), SB 5841
Insurance, health savings accounts in the form of core benefit plans for state employees: HB 1870
Insurance, issuers of medicare supplement insurance policies or certificates providing coverage: * HB 1567, CH 161 (2009), SB 5670
Insurance, limited restrictions on an endorsing practitioner's authority to write a prescription to dispense only as written through state purchased health care plans: * ESSB 5892, CH 575 (2009)
Insurance, maximizing appropriate prescription drug use through state purchased health care plans: SB 5892
Insurance, offering a separate health plan targeted at young adults: HB 1866
Insurance, options for young adults: SB 5052
Insurance, organ transplant coverage terms and conditions: SB 5725, * SSB 5725, CH 487 (2009)
Insurance, out-of-state health carrier certificate of authority requirements: HB 1871
Insurance, pharmacy services coverage through open pharmacy networks: HB 1905
Insurance, procedures and penalties for false claims against a governmental entity: SB 5144
Insurance, providing coverage not subject to RCW 48.43.045(1): HB 1865
Insurance, reducing organ transplant benefit waiting periods based on prior creditable coverage: HB 1308, * SHB 1308, CH 82 (2009), SB 5236
Insurance, requirement for school districts and educational service districts to purchase coverage through health care authority: HB 2177, SB 5491, SSB 5491
Insurance, small employer discount for employee wellness programs: SB 6019, * SSB 6019, CH 131 (2009)
Insurance, streamlined and uniform administrative procedures for payors and providers of health care services: HB 1647, SHB 1647, SB 5346, SSB 5346, * 2SSB 5346, CH 298 (2009)
Insurance, Washington health care partnership plan to be established: SB 5945, SSB 5945
Insurance, Washington state apple health insurance board and community care premium assistance program established: SB 5947
Insurance, wellness incentives paid by health carrier: HB 2160, * SHB 2160, CH 329 (2009), SB 5998
Language access services, persons with limited English proficiency: HB 1519, SB 5140
Lead levels in blood, assessments for children younger than twenty-one years: HB 1345
Lead levels in blood, pilot program for screening children at risk for elevated levels: HB 1342
Long-term care facilities, requests for waiver of rights of residents prohibited: SB 5226
Long-term care services, supporting autonomy and informal caregivers for the aging and persons with disabilities: HB 1330
Medicaid, annual personal needs allowance adjustments for medicaid-eligible persons receiving care in institutions or community settings: SB 5196
Medical and dental services grants to be funded through voter-approved sales and use tax on candy: SB 6189
Medical marijuana, health care professionals to be excepted from liability and prosecution for authorizing use of: HB 2046, SB 5798, SSB 5798
Medical pregnancy resource centers: HJM 4016
Medically intensive home health care, rates: HB 1503
Medications, occupational therapists authorized to purchase, store, and administer: HB 1041, * SHB 1041, CH 68 (2009), SB 5100
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus: HB 1123, * ESHB 1123, CH 244 (2009)
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, pre-surgical testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, screening for and reporting of: SB 5500
Midwives, fees for licensure: HB 2168
Minors in need of lifesaving medical treatment, department of social and health services to investigate refusal of treatment: HB 1759
Mobility enhancing equipment, tax exemptions when prescribed: HB 1411, HB 1485, SB 5033
Morbid obesity, insurance coverage for surgical treatment: SB 6052, SSB 6052
National nurse, establishment of office of the: HJM 4018
Neurodevelopmental therapies, health benefit plan coverage: HB 1412, SHB 1412
Newborn children, appropriate locations for transfer: SB 5318, * SSB 5318, CH 290 (2009) PV
Nurses, hours of labor: SB 5563, SSB 5563
Nurses, meal and rest periods when employed by health care facilities: HB 1642
Occupational diseases of firefighters, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and esophageal cancer considered to be in certain cases: HB 1932
Organ transplant benefit waiting periods, reducing based on prior creditable coverage: HB 1308, * SHB 1308, CH 82 (2009), SB 5236
Organ transplant insurance coverage, terms and conditions: SB 5725, * SSB 5725, CH 487 (2009)
Personnel, health care provider right of conscience: HB 1687
Pharmaceutical product stewardship programs: HB 1165, SHB 1165, 2SHB 1165, SB 5279
Prescription drugs, excluding disclosure of patient health care information from definition of appropriate marketing of: HB 1493, SHB 1493
Primary care medical home reimbursement pilot projects, evaluation of by health care authority and department of social and health services: HB 2114, SHB 2114, 2SHB 2114, SB 5891, * SSB 5891, CH 305 (2009)
Professionals, health professional shortage plan to be developed by department of health and a medical school in central Washington: SB 5772
Professionals, reporting violent injuries: SB 5056, * SSB 5056, CH 359 (2009)
Programs, revisions to implement 2009-2011 state operating budget: HB 2364
Provider billing statements, admissibility in certain proceedings: HB 1737, SB 5573
Providers, credential surcharge: HB 2348
Public employees' benefits board, employee eligibility for benefits: HB 2245, * ESHB 2245, CH 537 (2009), SB 5869, SSB 5869
Records, access to a minor's mental health treatment information by a parent, guardian, or custodian: SB 5546
Respite care for primary care providers of persons with developmental disabilities, eligibility: HB 1429, SHB 1429, 2SHB 1429, * SB 5547, CH 312 (2009)
School nurses, increasing number of: HB 1502
Scoliosis screening in schools, eliminating: * HB 1322, CH 41 (2009)
Scoliosis screening in schools, eliminating requirements for: SB 5074
Secure exchange of health information, health care authority to designate lead organization(s) to coordinate development of system for: SB 5501, * SSB 5501, CH 300 (2009)
Service contractors, maximum capital and reserves accumulations: HB 1858
Sexually transmitted diseases, sexual health education funding for programs to help prevent: HB 1612, * SB 5629, CH 303 (2009)
Special education programs, billing for medical services through: * HB 1155, CH 73 (2009), SB 5201
Telemedicine, delivery of medical assistance program home health care services through: HB 1529, * SHB 1529, CH 326 (2009), SB 5497, SSB 5497
Tobacco and tobacco products, prohibition of sales if retail establishment located on same premises as a health care clinic: HB 2257
Training projects for improvement of medical services for adults with developmental disabilities, grant program: HB 1446, SB 5376, SSB 5376
Traumatic brain injury grant advisory board, dissolution and assumption of duties and powers by traumatic brain injury council: SSB 5589
Unintended pregnancy, sexual health education funding for programs to help prevent: HB 1612, * SB 5629, CH 303 (2009)
Vaccines containing mercury, requirements: SB 5457
Vaccines, universal vaccine purchase account created: HB 2342
Volunteer health practitioners, registration requirements for volunteering during emergency declaration: HB 1400
Waiver of rights of residents of long-term care facilities, requests prohibited: SB 5226
Washington health care partnership plan, establishment: SB 5945, SSB 5945
Washington health security trust, creation and replacement of health care authority by: HB 1892, SB 6093, SB 6094
Washington state apple health insurance board and community care premium assistance program established: SB 5947
Youth sports, adoption of policies for the management of concussions and head injuries: * EHB 1824, CH 475 (2009), SB 5763, ESSB 5763
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Abolished, to be replaced by Washington health security trust: HB 1892, SB 6093, SB 6094
Adult family home providers, considered employees for collective bargaining purposes: HB 2158, SB 5787
Advanced diagnostic imaging services, authority to implement for all state purchased health care programs the best practice guidelines identified by the legislative work group: HB 2105, * ESHB 2105, CH 258 (2009), SB 5981
Appropriate prescription drug use, maximizing through state purchased health care plans: SB 5892
Basic health plan eligibility revisions: SB 6154
Basic health plan modified to include economic recovery enrollees: HB 2117, SB 6038, SSB 6038, 2SSB 6038
Basic health plan program changes necessary to implement 2009-2011 operating budget: HB 2341, * SHB 2341, CH 568 (2009)
Cancer treatments, coverage to provide financial parity for cancer chemotherapy and oral anticancer medication costs: SB 5512
Child care providers, various provisions: SB 5506, SSB 5506
Community health care collaborative grant program, established: HB 1620, SB 5360, * SSB 5360, CH 299 (2009) PV
Core benefit plans, health savings accounts in the form of: HB 1870
Domestic partners, state insurance benefits: * EHB 1616, CH 523 (2009)
Electronic signatures as part of benefit application process: * HB 1270, CH 201 (2009), SB 5197
Eligibility for benefits, determination and periodic review of state employees concerning: HB 2245, * ESHB 2245, CH 537 (2009), SB 5869, SSB 5869
Grants for increasing dental and medical services, referral of revenue receipts from voter-approved sales and use tax on candy to fund: SB 6189
Guaranteed health benefit program, created under the management of the authority: HB 2121
Health benefits for K-12 employees, convening work group concerning: 2SSB 5491
Health insurance exchange mechanism to facilitate access to coverage, authority to operate: SB 5730, SSB 5730
Health technology assessment program, administrator and health technology clinical committee roles in assessment process: SB 6150
Health technology clinical committee, review process for health technology: SB 6026
Insurance, enforcement of primacy of coverage when third-party liability exists regarding claims under plans administered by the state: HB 2330
Interpretation services, persons with limited English proficiency: HB 1519, SB 5140
Office of the health care authority ombudsman to be established in office of the insurance commissioner: HB 1958, SB 5830
Prescriptions, limited restrictions on an endorsing practitioner's authority to write a prescription to dispense only as written through state purchased health care plans: * ESSB 5892, CH 575 (2009)
Primacy of insurance coverage, enforcement when third-party liability exists regarding claims under health plans administered by the state: HB 2330
Primary care medical home reimbursement pilot projects, evaluation of by authority and department of social and health services: HB 2114, SHB 2114, 2SHB 2114, SB 5891, * SSB 5891, CH 305 (2009)
Public employees' health care, authority to establish premium contributions: SSB 5930
Public employees' health care, authority to establish tiered premium contributions based on salary: SB 5930
School district and educational service district employees' basic benefits to be determined and administered by health care authority: HB 1940, SHB 1940
School districts and educational service districts, requirement to purchase coverage through authority: HB 2177, SB 5491, SSB 5491
Secure exchange of health information, authority to designate lead organization(s) to coordinate development of system for: SB 5501, * SSB 5501, CH 300 (2009)
Washington state quality authority, eliminated: HB 2159, * SB 6002, CH 488 (2009)
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               (See also COUNSELORS AND COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE)
Acupuncture profession, name of and titles within modified: HB 1390, SB 5320
Acupuncture quality assurance commission, creation: HB 1398, SB 5535
Advanced registered nurse practitioners, mental health care involving commitment: HB 1071, * SHB 1071, CH 217 (2009)
Alternative health care practitioners, practice requirements: SB 5755
Colon hydrotherapists, licensure and standards of competence and conduct: HB 1638
Complementary and alternative health care practitioners, practice requirements: HB 1861
Contracts for health care with a health care provider, required provisions: HB 2213
Cost information, all fees and charges for services and procedures to be disclosed by provider: HB 1869, * SHB 1869, CH 529 (2009)
Credentials, surcharge: HB 2348
Direct patient-provider primary care practices, payment arrangements: HB 1459, SB 5436, * SSB 5436, CH 552 (2009) PV
Disciplining of health professionals, various provisions: HB 1424
Family medicine residency training grant program: HB 1047
Family medicine residency training grant program and account: SB 5502
Genetic counselors, licensing: HB 1723, SB 5608, * SSB 5608, CH 302 (2009) PV
Health care assistants, administration of medications and vaccines: HB 1414, * SHB 1414, CH 43 (2009), SB 5852
Health care facility employees, expanding the application of the prohibition on mandatory overtime: HB 1850
Health care facility employees, limiting exceptions to prohibition on mandatory overtime: HB 1680, SHB 1680
Health professional shortage plan to be developed by department of health and a medical school in central Washington: SB 5772
Holistic physicians, work group to study: HB 1032
Human trafficking course, all persons licensed to practice medicine required to take: SB 5850, SSB 5850, * E2SSB 5850, CH 492 (2009) PV
Immunization registry program for children through age eighteen, physicians and nurses required to record child immunization information: SB 6041
Impaired physician program, requirements for licensing surcharge funding: HB 1765, * SHB 1765, CH 98 (2009), SB 5851
Licensing information, office of financial management access to: HB 2079, * SHB 2079, CH 343 (2009)
Long-term care worker training and background checks, changes to provisions: * ESSB 6180, CH 580 (2009)
Long-term care worker training and credentialing, changes to provisions: HB 2352
Medical eye care providers, insurance plan enrollees to have direct access to providers without prior referral: HB 1396
Medical marijuana, health care professionals to be excepted from liability and prosecution for authorizing use of: HB 2046, SB 5798, SSB 5798
Mental health service providers, disclosure of information concerning services received by persons who have been committed: HB 1300, * SHB 1300, CH 320 (2009)
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, pre-surgical testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Midwives, fees for licensure: HB 2168
Naturopathy, creation of Washington state board of: HB 2381
Naturopathy, indirect supervision by naturopath of unlicensed practitioner performing colon hydrotherapy: HB 2004, SHB 2004
Nurses, hours of labor: SB 5563, SSB 5563
Nurses, meal and rest periods when employed by health care facilities: HB 1642
Occupational therapists, authorized to purchase, store, and administer medications: HB 1041, * SHB 1041, CH 68 (2009), SB 5100
Osteopathic physicians and surgeons, pre-surgical methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, honoring: * SR 8655 (2009)
Pharmacy technicians to complete continuing education requirements established by board of pharmacy: HB 2064
Physical therapists, conditions when performing spinal manipulation: HB 1918, SB 5230
Physician assistants, eligibility of foreign medical school graduates for licensing as: SB 5775, SSB 5775
Physicians and surgeons, pre-surgical methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Physicians, health care provider right of conscience: HB 1687
Physicians, retired active license: HB 1899, SHB 1899, * 2SHB 1899, CH 403 (2009)
Prescription pads, tamper-resistant: * HB 2014, CH 328 (2009), SB 5826, SSB 5826
Primary care physician conditional tuition waiver program: ESSB 5502
Primary care physician conditional tuition waiver program and account: SB 5502
Providers and payors of health care services, streamlined and uniform administrative procedures to be established: HB 1647, SHB 1647, SB 5346, SSB 5346, * 2SSB 5346, CH 298 (2009)
Registered nurses, delegation of authority for various tasks to nurse by optometric physician: HB 1397
Registered nurses, delegation of authority for various tasks to nurse by optometrist: * SHB 1397, CH 203 (2009)
Secure exchange of health information, health care authority to designate lead organization(s) to coordinate development of system for: SB 5501, * SSB 5501, CH 300 (2009)
Speech-language pathology assistants, certification provisions: * ESSB 5601, CH 301 (2009)
Speech-language pathology assistants, licensing provisions: HB 1631, SB 5601
Surgeons, pre-surgical methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Training projects for improvement of medical services for adults with developmental disabilities, grant program: HB 1446, SB 5376, SSB 5376
University of Washington health sciences library, online access to by certain health care providers: HB 1611, SB 5913, * SSB 5913, CH 558 (2009) PV
Violent injuries, health care professionals to report: SB 5056, * SSB 5056, CH 359 (2009)
Volunteer health practitioners, registration requirements for volunteering during emergency declaration: HB 1400
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Body piercing and tattooing facilities, local jurisdictions to monitor: SB 5762
Child mortality reviews to be conducted and collected by local health departments with assistance from department of health: * SHB 1303, CH 134 (2009)
Child mortality reviews to be conducted by local health departments and collected by department of health: HB 1303
Immunizations, increasing annual immunization rates: SB 5848
Local health boards, composition: SB 5812
Spokane County health district, agency membership: SSB 5812
Trans fat, food establishments prohibited from serving certain food containing: SB 5857
HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS  HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS RSS Feed
               
Contracts for health care with a health care provider, required provisions: HB 2213
Health care coverage, access for small employers and their employees: HB 1868
Health care coverage, amino acid-based elemental formulas for infants and children to be covered: SB 5814
Health care facilities construction and development, certificate of need program: * SB 5673, CH 315 (2009)
Health care, providing coverage not subject to RCW 48.43.045(1): HB 1865
Maximum capital and reserves accumulations: HB 1858
HEALTH, DEPARTMENT  HEALTH, DEPARTMENT RSS Feed
               (See also HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, LOCAL)
Acupuncture profession, name of and titles within modified: HB 1390, SB 5320
Acupuncture quality assurance commission, creation: HB 1398, SB 5535
Advisory committee on genetic counseling, establishment: HB 1723, SB 5608
AIDS program grants, consolidation of administrative services in department: HB 2360
Birth and death certificates, surcharge for certified copies: HB 2348, SHB 2348
Birth certificates, disclosure of confidential information: HB 1510, * SHB 1510, CH 44 (2009)
Birth certificates, limiting access to: SB 5845
Body piercing and body art, sterilization requirements and standard universal precautions: HB 1085, SHB 1085, SB 5762
Certificate of need review by department under certain circumstances: * 2SHB 1021, CH 242 (2009)
Child mortality reviews to be conducted and collected by local health departments with assistance from department of health: * SHB 1303, CH 134 (2009)
Child mortality reviews to be conducted by local health departments and collected by department of health: HB 1303
Colon hydrotherapists, licensure and standards of competence and conduct: HB 1638
Community health center funds to be transferred to reserve account and benefits account: HB 1892, SB 6093, SB 6094
Counseling professions subject to authority of secretary of health under the uniform disciplinary act: HB 1514, ESHB 1514, SB 5369, * SSB 5369, CH 52 (2009)
Death and birth certificates, surcharge for certified copies: HB 2348, SHB 2348
Disciplining of health professionals, various provisions: HB 1424
Dogs to be allowed in outdoor areas of bars and coffee shops, pilot project: SB 5336
Family counseling pilot program, merit checks for couples completing a family preparation course: SB 5829
Genetic counselors, licensing: HB 1723, SB 5608, * SSB 5608, CH 302 (2009) PV
Group B public water systems, waiver of some requirements by state board of health for systems with fewer than five connections: SB 6171, * SSB 6171, CH 495 (2009)
Health care assistants, administration of medications and vaccines: HB 1414, * SHB 1414, CH 43 (2009), SB 5852
Health care providers, surcharge for credentials: HB 2348
Health professional licensing information, office of financial management access to: HB 2079, * SHB 2079, CH 343 (2009)
Health professional shortage plan, to be developed in concert with a medical school in central Washington: SB 5772
Hospital charity care, department role: SB 5347
Hospitals, conditions to be met before issuance of final report after unannounced inspection: SHB 1021, * 2SHB 1021, CH 242 (2009)
Human remains, electronic approval of vital records by medical examiner, funeral director, and others: * HB 1515, CH 231 (2009), SB 5370
Immunization registry program for children through age eighteen, department authority to create: SB 6041
Immunizations, increasing annual immunization rates: SB 5848
Impaired physician program, requirements for licensing surcharge funding: HB 1765, * SHB 1765, CH 98 (2009), SB 5851
Lead levels in blood, pilot program for screening children at risk for elevated levels: HB 1342
Medicare initial certification surveys of health care facilities, fee requirement: HB 2296
Medication management in jails, department to review annually medication practices of five jails: * SSB 5252, CH 411 (2009)
Mercury-containing vaccines, requirements: SB 5457
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, pre-surgical testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, screening for and reporting of: SB 5500
Midwives, fees for licensure: HB 2168
Neurodevelopmental therapies, department to indentify and review therapies: HB 1412, SHB 1412
Osteopathic physicians and surgeons, pre-surgical methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Pesticide incident reporting and tracking review panel, elimination of: SB 6171
Pesticide poisoning and exposure, department flexibility in investigation of: * SSB 6171, CH 495 (2009)
Physician assistants, eligibility of foreign medical school graduates for licensing as: SB 5775, SSB 5775
Physician training, family medicine residency training grant program and account: SB 5502
Physician training, primary care physician conditional tuition waiver program: ESSB 5502
Physician training, primary care physician conditional tuition waiver program and account: SB 5502
Physicians and surgeons, pre-surgical methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Programs under supervision of department, changes to provisions relating to certain programs: SB 6171, * SSB 6171, CH 495 (2009)
Public water systems, chlorine residual measurement requirements for certain group A water systems: * SSB 5199, CH 367 (2009) PV
Public water systems, operator certification and responsibilities: HB 1283, * SHB 1283, CH 221 (2009), SB 5199
Reclaimed water use, permitting requirements and violations and penalties: HB 1482, SHB 1482, SB 5504, * SSB 5504, CH 456 (2009)
Shellfish, biotoxin testing and monitoring surcharge: * SB 6121, CH 577 (2009)
Small business employee wellness program to be administered by department: HB 2183
Social worker, definition and degree requirements: HB 1357, SHB 1357, SB 5220, SSB 5220
Speech-language pathology assistants, certification provisions: * ESSB 5601, CH 301 (2009)
Speech-language pathology assistants, licensing provisions: HB 1631, SB 5601
Surgeons, pre-surgical methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Suspicious or contaminated food products, department to provide toll-free phone number for reporting: SB 6042
Tattooing, body art, body piercing, comprehensive regulations: SB 5391, * SSB 5391, CH 412 (2009)
Vaccines containing mercury, requirements: SB 5457
Vaccines, use of funds from universal vaccine purchase account to be determined by department: HB 2342
Veterinary board of governors, administration and disciplining authority: HB 1176, SB 5532
Volunteer health practitioners, registration requirements for volunteering during emergency declaration: HB 1400
Washington state quality authority, eliminated: HB 2159, * SB 6002, CH 488 (2009)
HEALTH, STATE BOARD  HEALTH, STATE BOARD RSS Feed
               
Food service rules, cold temperature exemption for older equipment: HB 1365
Food services, exemptions from cold-holding temperature standards for older equipment: HB 1662
Group B public water systems, waiver of some requirements by board for systems with fewer than five connections: SB 6171, * SSB 6171, CH 495 (2009)
Immunization of children, required documentation for exemption from: HB 1703, ESHB 1703, SB 5707
School environmental health and safety rules, phasing-in period: HB 2070, SB 5779, SSB 5779
Sewage systems, limitations on board authority to regulate: HB 1661
HEATING  HEATING RSS Feed
               
Solar hot water components, sales and use tax exemption: HB 1188
Solar water heater systems, requirements for new homes: HB 1187
HIGHER EDUCATION  (See COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES)
HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD  HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD RSS Feed
               
Advisory committee on tuition policy, board to convene: HB 2118
Border county higher education opportunity project, provisions revised: * HB 1474, CH 158 (2009)
College information web-based access portal for students, work group: HB 1130, SB 5043, * SSB 5043, CH 23 (2009)
Conditional scholarship programs to be subject to availability of appropriations: HB 2343, * SHB 2343, CH 539 (2009)
Consumer report card for higher education, cooperative development: HB 1673
Effectiveness and efficiency work group, higher education review and recommendations: HB 1674
Environmental cleanup opportunity grant program and account, board to award conditional scholarships: HB 1594
Field of dreams program, board to administer GET units for program to provide access to postsecondary education for agricultural industry employees: HB 1428
Financial aid, state need grant award limits and institutional incentive grants for institutions placing students in high-demand occupations: HB 2098
GET ready for college program and account, establishment: HB 2111
Health sciences and services authorities, establishment by board: HB 1901, SB 5789
High-cost critical college programs, identifying and managing competitive processes for awarding funds for: HB 1904
Higher education employees, annuities and retirement accounts: HB 1545, SB 5308
Higher education funding and access, surcharges and other economically responsible solutions for: SB 6156
Higher education loan program, creation: * E2SHB 2021, CH 215 (2009) PV
Higher education technology transformation task force to be convened by board: SHB 1946, * 2SHB 1946, CH 407 (2009)
Historically Black college fund pilot project: SB 5077
Incentive programs to motivate students to pursue postsecondary education, collaborative review: SSB 5260
Initiative to develop a higher education system plan: HCR 4404
Opportunity fund, labeling all financial aid awarded to resident undergraduates as: SHB 2021
Opportunity passports, labeling all financial aid awarded to resident undergraduates as: SB 6044
Opportunity pathway, labeling all nonfederal financial aid awarded to resident undergraduates as: * E2SHB 2021, CH 215 (2009) PV
Partnership between department of veterans affairs and higher education community, recognizing: * SR 8632 (2009)
Running start program, revising provisions: SSB 5924
State need grant award limits and institutional incentive grants for institutions placing students in high-demand occupations: HB 2098
Training projects for improvement of medical services for adults with developmental disabilities, grant program: HB 1446, SB 5376, SSB 5376
Tuition and financial aid policy, board to review options and make recommendations: * ESHB 2344, CH 540 (2009)
Washington institute of aerospace technology and manufacturing studies, board to collaborate with other public and private entities concerning: HB 2318
Washington investment in student excellence scholarship program: SB 5606
Washington promise scholarship program: SB 5175
Washington scholars program, changes: SHB 2021, SB 6044
Work group for creating an online service for verifying higher education degrees and cerificates: HB 1671
Work-study opportunity fund for high-demand occupations, creation: HB 2021, SHB 2021, SB 6044
Work-study opportunity grant for high-demand occupations, creation: * E2SHB 2021, CH 215 (2009) PV
Work-study program, state: SB 5044, * SSB 5044, CH 172 (2009)
HIGHWAYS  (See ROADS AND HIGHWAYS)
HISTORIC PRESERVATION  HISTORIC PRESERVATION RSS Feed
               (See also ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION, DEPARTMENT)
Cemeteries and graves, certificates of authority for historic preservation: SB 5178
Historic preservation grant program and advisory board: SB 5018
Maritime historic vessel restoration and preservation program: HB 2379, SB 6185
Resident curators of significant state-owned properties: SB 5019, SSB 5019
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES  HISTORICAL SOCIETIES RSS Feed
               
Cemeteries and graves, certificates of authority for historic preservation: SB 5178
Nordic Heritage Museum, official state Nordic museum: SB 5079
State historical society, grant program and proposal solicitation for maritime historic vessel restoration and preservation program to be established by: HB 2379, SB 6185
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES  HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES RSS Feed
               
Official state Christmas tree, tree placed in capitol rotunda to be designated: HB 1301
HOME SCHOOLING  (See SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS)
HOMELESS PERSONS  HOMELESS PERSONS RSS Feed
               
Affordable housing for all program: HB 1173, SHB 1173
Church property, housing homeless persons on: HB 1956
Church property, temporary encampments for homeless persons on: ESHB 1956
Homelessness, additional county document recording surcharge to fund certain affordable housing and homeless purposes: HB 2166, SHB 2166
Housing homeless persons on church property: HB 1956
Housing, focus group to examine the need for housing for individuals at a high risk of being homeless: SSB 5219
Housing, task force for addressing housing for individuals at a high risk of being homeless: SB 5219
Services for the homeless, document recording fee charged by county auditor for: * HB 2331, CH 462 (2009)
Task forces for affordable housing and ending homelessness: HB 1173
Task forces for affordable housing convened by counties: SHB 1173
Temporary encampments for homeless persons on church property: ESHB 1956
Vulnerable persons discharged from state institutions, plans for eliminating discharge into homelessness: HB 1488, SHB 1488
HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS  HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS RSS Feed
               
Office of the state homeowners' association ombudsman, creation in office of attorney general: SB 6055
Policies and procedures: SB 6054
Real estate disclosure requirements regarding homeowners' associations: SB 6000, * SSB 6000, CH 130 (2009)
Solar energy panels, regulating use by association members: SB 5136, * SSB 5136, CH 51 (2009)
HORSES AND HORSE RACING  HORSES AND HORSE RACING RSS Feed
               
Horse racing commission, duties to be absorbed by gambling commission: SB 5589
Washington bred owners' bonus fund and breeder awards account: HB 1315, * SB 5125, CH 87 (2009)
HOSPICE CARE  HOSPICE CARE RSS Feed
               
Agencies, certificate of need exemption when serving unique needs of religious groups or ethnic minorities: HB 1926, * ESHB 1926, CH 89 (2009)
HOSPITAL BENEFIT ZONES  (See HOSPITALS)
HOSPITALS  HOSPITALS RSS Feed
               
Audits and surveys, prior notice: HB 1021
Certificate of need program for health facilities and services, abolished: HB 1867
Certificate of need review by department of health under certain circumstances: * 2SHB 1021, CH 242 (2009)
Charity care, requirements: SB 5347
Cost information, all fees and charges for services and procedures to be disclosed by provider: * SHB 1869, CH 529 (2009)
Critical access hospitals not subject to certificate of need review under some circumstances: EHB 1460, * ESB 5423, CH 54 (2009)
Disproportionate share hospital adjustments by department of social and health services, appropriation of funds for: * HB 2349, CH 538 (2009)
Employees, limiting exceptions to prohibition on mandatory overtime for nurses and certain other employees: HB 1680, SHB 1680
Health care employees, hours of labor: SB 5563, SSB 5563
Health care facilities construction and development, certificate of need program: HB 1777, * SB 5673, CH 315 (2009)
Health care facility employees, expanding the application of the prohibition on mandatory overtime: HB 1850
Health care facility employees, meal and rest periods: HB 1642
Hospital benefit zones, funds and improvements: HB 1449, SB 5087
Hospital labor management training partnerships to collaborate in development and implementation of health care career ladder: SB 6091
Medical assistance payment rates, adjustment for noncritical access hospitals by department of social and health services: SB 6176
Medicare initial certification surveys of health care facilities, fee requirement: HB 2296
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus: HB 1123, * ESHB 1123, CH 244 (2009)
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, pre-surgical testing and related requirements and prohibitions: HB 2375
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, screening for and reporting of: SB 5500
Noncritical access hospitals, adjustment of medical assistance payment rates by department of social and health services: SB 6176
Nurses, hours of labor: SB 5563, SSB 5563
Nurses, meal and rest periods: HB 1642
Physicians and personnel, health care provider right of conscience: HB 1687
Provider billing statements, admissibility in certain proceedings: HB 1737, SB 5573
Public hospital capital facility areas, establishment as quasi-municipal corporations and independent taxing units within counties: * SB 5354, CH 481 (2009)
Real or personal property leased to a public hospital, property tax exemption: HB 1882, SHB 1882, SB 5570
Unannounced inspections, conditions to be met before issuance of final report: SHB 1021, * 2SHB 1021, CH 242 (2009)
Violent injuries, reporting: * SSB 5056, CH 359 (2009)
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS  HOUSE RESOLUTIONS RSS Feed
               
4-H youth development program: * HR 4615 (2009)
Achievers scholarship program, Washington state: * HR 4631 (2009)
Aguilar, Ernest: * HR 4635 (2009)
Apple Blossom Festival: * HR 4649 (2009)
Arts education, importance of: * HR 4640 (2009)
Autism, individuals with: * HR 4627 (2009)
Black history month: * HR 4622 (2009)
Catholic schools week: * HR 4609 (2009)
Child's play charity: * HR 4620 (2009)
Childhaven: * HR 4616 (2009)
Children's Day, celebrating: * HR 4604 (2009)
Civic Education Day: * HR 4611 (2009)
Classified school employees: * HR 4642 (2009)
DeLisle, Arthur: * HR 4612 (2009)
Dennis Schatz: * HR 4646 (2009)
Department of veterans affairs and the higher education community, partnership: * HR 4625 (2009)
Des Moines, fiftieth birthday: * HR 4619 (2009)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., remembering his dream: * HR 4603 (2009)
Equal suffrage amendment, centennial of submission to the people of Washington: * HR 4618 (2009)
Foster children and their participation in extracurricular activities: * HR 4644 (2009)
Girls and women in sports: * HR 4613 (2009)
Hoefner, Kenneth "Kenny": * HR 4648 (2009)
House interim business: * HR 4653 (2009)
House organized, notification of senate: * HR 4601 (2009)
House rules, amending: * HR 4621 (2009)
House rules, permanent: * HR 4608 (2009)
House rules, temporary: * HR 4600 (2009)
Independent living for persons with disabilities: * HR 4633 (2009)
Japanese-American internees and WWII veterans from Washington state, recognizing: * HR 4617 (2009)
Kids in Action: * HR 4652 (2009)
McIntyre, Dr. Jerilyn: * HR 4606 (2009)
Military children: * HR 4651 (2009)
Miss Washington 2008: * HR 4626 (2009)
Mount Baker community and Mount Baker Martin Luther King, Jr. scholarship program: * HR 4607 (2009)
Navy Day: * HR 4630 (2009)
Olson, Logan: * HR 4639 (2009)
Olympia, 150th birthday: * HR 4610 (2009)
PEAK leadership program participants: * HR 4637 (2009)
Presidents' Day: * HR 4614 (2009)
Red hat day: * HR 4641 (2009)
Scholar-athletes: * HR 4647 (2009)
Seattle children's home: * HR 4624 (2009)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: * HR 4638 (2009)
Skagit Valley tulip festival: * HR 4632 (2009)
Skinner, Mary: * HR 4605 (2009)
Teacher of the year, Washington state: * HR 4634 (2009)
The Evergreen State College men's basketball team: * HR 4645 (2009)
Vandeman, Dr. Philip: * HR 4643 (2009)
Veterans, preferred employment opportunities for: * HR 4650 (2009)
Washington national guard, recognition: * HR 4602 (2009)
Washington state scholars: * HR 4628 (2009)
Whitley Barnes: * HR 4629 (2009)
Wilkeson, 100th birthday: * HR 4636 (2009)
Youth volunteer service: * HR 4623 (2009)
HOUSING  HOUSING RSS Feed
               (See also MANUFACTURED HOUSING; MOBILE HOMES; REAL ESTATE AND REAL PROPERTY; RENT)
Affordable housing development, use of surplus property owned by governmental entities for: EHB 2138
Affordable housing entities, joint self-insurance programs covering property or liability risks: SB 5665, * SSB 5665, CH 314 (2009)
Affordable housing for all program: HB 1173, SHB 1173
Affordable housing near military bases, sales and use tax to fund through military improvement zone pilot program: HB 1756
Affordable housing programs, funding through interest accrued on residential landlord/tenant security deposit accounts: SB 5923
Affordable housing, additional county document recording surcharge to fund certain affordable housing and homeless purposes: HB 2166, SHB 2166
Affordable housing, county authorization to fund through surcharge: HB 1934
Affordable, sales and use tax refund for materials and services related to construction: HB 1141, SHB 1141
Church property, housing homeless persons on: HB 1956
Church property, temporary encampments for homeless persons on: ESHB 1956
Construction defects, warranty of habitability: HB 1045
Consumer loan act, exemption from requirements for nonprofit housing organizations and for loans and persons making loans in certain cases: * SSB 5468, CH 311 (2009)
Dependency proceedings, housing assistance for the child: HB 1769, * SHB 1769, CH 397 (2009)
Dependency proceedings, housing services and assistance for the child: SB 5266, SSB 5266
Employer-assisted housing program, business and occupation tax credits for participating employers: HB 1696, SHB 1696, SB 5585
Energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements for residential property owners, financing through sustainable energy trust program: * E2SHB 1007, CH 65 (2009)
Energy efficiency improvement and sustainable energy improvements for property owners, financing through sustainable energy trust bonds: SHB 1007
First-time home buyers, property tax exemption: HB 2090
Focus group to examine the need for housing for individuals at a high risk of being homeless: SSB 5219
Home inspectors, responsibilities and instructional courses: SB 5644
Homeless persons, housing on church property: HB 1956
Homeless persons, temporary encampments on church property for: ESHB 1956
Homelessness, focus group to examine the need for housing for individuals at a high risk of being homeless: SSB 5219
Homelessness, task force for addressing housing for individuals at a high risk of being homeless: SB 5219
Homeowner's bill of rights: HB 1045
Homeowners' associations, policies and procedures: SB 6054
Homeowners' associations, real estate disclosure requirements regarding: SB 6000, * SSB 6000, CH 130 (2009)
Housing authorities, annual reporting of housing program revenue use to department of community, trade, and economic development: HB 2247
Housing everyone financing tool program, creation: HB 1973, SB 5856
Independent youth housing program, provisions: * HB 1492, CH 148 (2009)
Local government crime-free rental housing programs: HB 1299, SB 5742, ESSB 5742
Low-income households, sustainable residential weatherization: HB 1060, SHB 1060
Low-income housing development, affordable housing incentive programs: * EHB 1464, CH 80 (2009), SB 5544, SSB 5544
Low-income housing, state funding process: HB 2018
Low-income senior citizen housing, exemptions: * SB 5470, CH 483 (2009)
Low-income, funding from affordable housing account: SSB 6116
Low-income, funding from housing trust fund to require a life-cycle cost analysis as part of evaluation of proposals: SB 5788, SSB 5788
Low-income, funding from special county arts, regional center, low-income housing, and community development fund: HB 2252, ESHB 2252
Low-income, funding from special purposes account: SB 6116
New home construction sales tax, reduction to increase economic activity: HB 2057
Nonprofit housing organizations, exemption from consumer loan act: SB 5468, * SSB 5468, CH 311 (2009)
Office of consumer education for home construction, created in office of attorney general: SB 5895, SSB 5895
Office of consumer education for home construction, created in office of attorney general and duties: E2SSB 5895
Office of the state homeowners' association ombudsman, creation in office of attorney general: SB 6055
Organizations receiving affordable housing funding required to pay employees and contractors according to housing self-sufficiency income standards: HB 1963
Prevent or reduce owner-occupied foreclosure program: * ESB 6033, CH 386 (2009) PV
Publicly funded housing, energy audits and retrofits: SB 5649, SSB 5649, * E2SSB 5649, CH 379 (2009) PV
Rental, limitations on inspections: HB 1296, SHB 1296, SB 5495, SSB 5495
Residential housing, improving home construction through consumer education, warranties, and contractor and worker requirements: HB 1393, SHB 1393
Residential housing, improving home construction through consumer education, warranties, and contractor registration: E2SHB 1393
Residential infrastructure program, loans and grants for public infrastructure to support dense, affordable residential development in transit-proximate areas: SB 5377, SSB 5377
Residential real property construction, improving through multiple strategies: SB 5895, SSB 5895, E2SSB 5895
Residential real property homeowner and construction professional early resolution mediation program: E2SSB 5895
Revaluations of real property, requirement that county assessors conduct revaluations after a certain percentage reduction in county median home prices: SB 6075
Self-sufficiency income standards, department of community, trade, and economic development to establish and maintain: HB 1963
Seller's disclosure statement, questions about wood burning appliances added: HB 1577, SB 5375, SSB 5375
Sex offender safe housing study: HB 1143
Solar water heater systems, requirements for new homes: HB 1187
Special needs housing, financing loans or grant projects through the housing trust fund: HB 1250, SHB 1250, SB 5300
Sustainable residential weatherization, low-income households: HB 1060, SHB 1060
Task force for addressing housing for individuals at a high risk of being homeless: SB 5219
Task forces for affordable housing and ending homelessness: HB 1173
Task forces for affordable housing convened by counties: SHB 1173
Vacant homes, real estate excise tax exemptions to encourage sales to low-income buyers: HB 1495, SHB 1495, SB 5753, SSB 5753
Vulnerable persons discharged from state institutions, plans for eliminating discharge into homelessness: HB 1488, SHB 1488
Water conservation appliances, requirements for high efficiency toilets and urinals: SB 5948, SSB 5948
Weatherization, expansion of low-income programs: SB 5649, SSB 5649, * E2SSB 5649, CH 379 (2009) PV
Wood framing used in residential construction, testing for moisture content before enclosing: SB 6043
HOUSING FINANCE COMMISSION  HOUSING FINANCE COMMISSION RSS Feed
               
Debt limit of commission, increase: HB 1384, * SB 5452, CH 291 (2009)
Employer-assisted housing program, business and occupation tax credits for participating employers: HB 1696, SHB 1696, SB 5585
Energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements for property owners, financing through sustainable energy trust program: * E2SHB 1007, CH 65 (2009)
Energy efficiency improvement and sustainable energy improvements for property owners, financing through sustainable energy trust bonds: SHB 1007
Prevent or reduce owner-occupied foreclosure program, commission to implement and administer with department of financial institutions: * ESB 6033, CH 386 (2009) PV
HUMAN REMAINS  HUMAN REMAINS RSS Feed
               
Autopsy of a child under three years of age, authorized locations: HB 2084
Cemetery board and board of funeral directors and embalmers, consolidating as funeral and cemetery board: HB 2126, * ESHB 2126, CH 102 (2009), SB 5868, SSB 5868
Discovery, adoption by director of department of archaeology and historic preservation of rules to implement chapter 275, laws of 2008: SHB 1090, 2SHB 1090
Discovery, determination of Indian origin and disposition: HB 1090
Electronic approval of vital records by medical examiner, funeral director, and others: * HB 1515, CH 231 (2009), SB 5370
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION  HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION RSS Feed
               
Lawful source of income, discrimination on basis of: HB 1766, SHB 1766, SB 5672, SSB 5672
HUNTING  HUNTING RSS Feed
               
Access, expansion through fee-funded recreational access and habitat enhancement agreements: SB 5067
Alien firearm license, exception for a nonimmigrant alien hunting with a Washington-licensed hunter: SB 5193
Hunting season, visible clothing requirements in mixed-use areas during: HB 1116
Licenses, requirements for members of military: * SB 5008, CH 269 (2009)
Licensing fees, recreational: SB 6084
Mice and rat traps, exemption from restrictions on traps: SB 5382
Trapping, licensing and regulations: HB 1115, SB 5389
Youth hunters, regulations modified to increase hunting safety: SB 5559
Youth hunting, requirements for hunters under age of fourteen: HB 1114, ESHB 1114
HYDRAULIC PERMITS AND PROJECTS  HYDRAULIC PERMITS AND PROJECTS RSS Feed
               
Project approval requirement, enforcing chapter 77.55 RCW when violated: HB 1117
Project approval requirements, penalties for violations: HB 1178



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