Bills by Topic Results
Bills that have passed the Legislature are shown in bold text with an * preceding them.
MENTAL HEALTH
   (See also COUNSELORS AND COUNSELING; GAMBLING; HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY; HOSPITALS; PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRISTS; PSYCHOLOGISTS; SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS; SEX OFFENSES AND OFFENDERS; SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER; TITLE ONLY BILLS) |
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American Indians/Alaska Natives, suicide/drug overdose crisis, addressing:
SB 6258 |
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Anxiety level of health care patients, provider assessment:
HB 1920 |
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Behavioral health caregivers/counselors, sexual harassment/assault of, preventing:
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ESSB 5258, CH 392 (2019) |
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Behavioral health facilities, department of, and interagency work group, creating:
HB 2054 |
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Behavioral health innovation and integration campus at UW, creating:
HB 1593, SHB 1593,
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E2SHB 1593, CH 323 (2019), SB 5516, SSB 5516 |
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Behavioral health ombuds, state office of the, establishing:
HB 2386 |
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Behavioral health organizations, MCOs and BH-ASOs, duties of:
SB 6469 |
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Behavioral health organizations, reallocation of duties to MCOs and BH-ASOs:
HB 1393, SHB 1393, SB 5432, SSB 5432,
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E2SSB 5432, CH 325 (2019) |
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Behavioral health professionals, advanced peer support specialist credential:
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2SHB 1907, CH 446 (2019), SB 5055 |
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Behavioral health professionals, bachelor's level credential:
SB 5053 |
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Behavioral health professionals, designated crisis responder protocols:
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2SHB 1907, CH 446 (2019) |
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Behavioral health professionals, dialectical behavior therapy certificate programs:
HB 1721 |
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Behavioral health professionals, evidence-based practices programs:
HB 1876, SHB 1876, SB 5903, SSB 5903 |
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Behavioral health professionals, geriatric behavioral health workers:
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HB 1349, CH 12 (2019), SB 5454 |
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Behavioral health professionals, loan repayment awards, when:
HB 1721 |
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Behavioral health professionals, loan repayment program, establishing:
HB 1668, SHB 1668,
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2SHB 1668, CH 302 (2019) |
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Behavioral health professionals, reciprocity program:
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SB 5054, CH 351 (2019) PV |
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Behavioral health professions, opportunity grant and scholarship programs:
HB 1850, SB 5635 |
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Behavioral health providers, medicaid rate increases, operating budget funds use:
HB 2584 |
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Behavioral health providers, state law and best practices, online training:
HB 1876, SHB 1876, SB 5903, SSB 5903 |
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Behavioral health providers, training to be chemical dependency counselors:
HB 1729, SHB 1729, SB 5715, SSB 5715 |
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Behavioral health services and training, by organizations, B&O tax deduction:
SB 5637 |
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Behavioral health services, client criminal justice system involvement reduction:
SB 5056 |
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Behavioral health services, criminal justice system-involved persons needing:
HB 1767, SHB 1767,
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2SHB 1767, CH 378 (2019) |
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Behavioral health services, for adolescents, access to:
HB 1874, SHB 1874,
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E2SHB 1874, CH 381 (2019), SB 5904, SSB 5904 |
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Behavioral health services, government-funded program, B&O tax deduction:
HB 1483, SHB 1483 |
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Behavioral health services, information for higher education students:
HB 1735 |
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Behavioral health services, pharmaceutical advertising sales surcharge for:
SB 5659 |
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Behavioral health services, plan for community and technical colleges:
HB 1735 |
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Behavioral health services, prevention and family services and programs:
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HB 1900, CH 172 (2019), SB 5826 |
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Behavioral health students, dialectical behavior therapy certificate programs:
HB 1721 |
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Behavioral health students, internships/supervision, grant program, studying:
HB 1668, SHB 1668 |
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Behavioral health, community behavioral health services act, chapter 71.24 as:
HB 1331, SHB 1331, 2SHB 1331, HB 1393, SHB 1393, SB 5380,
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SSB 5380, CH 314 (2019), SB 5432, SSB 5432,
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E2SSB 5432, CH 325 (2019) |
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Behavioral health, community facilities, bonds for capital improvements:
SB 5537, SSB 5537 |
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Behavioral health, community facilities, new types of:
HB 1394, SHB 1394,
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2SHB 1394, CH 324 (2019), SB 5431, SSB 5431, 2SSB 5431 |
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Behavioral health, enhanced services facilities, admission criteria:
HB 2448 |
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Behavioral health, evaluation and treatment facilities, co-occurring disorders:
SB 6469 |
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Behavioral health, full integration implementation:
HB 1393, SHB 1393, SB 5432, SSB 5432,
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E2SSB 5432, CH 325 (2019) |
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Behavioral health, managed care organizations and BH administrative services organizations:
HB 1393, SHB 1393, SB 5432, SSB 5432,
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E2SSB 5432, CH 325 (2019) |
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Behavioral health, secure withdrawal management and stabilization facilities:
SB 6469 |
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Behavioral health, Washington health corps initiative for professionals:
HB 1668, SHB 1668,
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2SHB 1668, CH 302 (2019) |
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Behavioral health, workforce academic and career pathway programs:
SB 5633, SSB 5633 |
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Children's mental health work group, members, recommendations, and advisory group:
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2SSB 5903, CH 360 (2019) |
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Children's mental health, comprehensive strategies for behavioral health services:
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2SSB 5903, CH 360 (2019) |
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Children's mental health, comprehensive strategies for services/supports:
HB 1876, SHB 1876, SB 5903, SSB 5903 |
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Children's mental health, infant/early childhood programs/consultation model:
HB 1876, SHB 1876, SB 5903, SSB 5903 |
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Children's mental health, partnership access line activities/services, funding model for:
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2SSB 5903, CH 360 (2019) |
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Commitment, involuntary, "likelihood of serious harm" and "gravely disabled":
HB 1814, SB 5720, SSB 5720, 2E2SSB 5720 |
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Commitment, involuntary, certain offenders, reentry community safety program:
SB 5048 |
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Commitment, involuntary, certified facility admission from single bed certification:
SB 6024 |
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Commitment, involuntary, community and state hospital care, work group:
HB 1393, SHB 1393, SB 5432, SSB 5432,
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E2SSB 5432, CH 325 (2019) |
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Commitment, involuntary, designated crisis responders, video/audio use:
HB 2099, ESHB 2099 |
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Commitment, involuntary, detained then released, firearm prohibition:
SB 5181,
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SSB 5181, CH 247 (2019) |
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Commitment, involuntary, discharge planning, criminal history disclosure:
HB 1826, SHB 1826 |
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Commitment, involuntary, diversion of veterans from:
HB 1759, SB 5047, SSB 5047 |
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Commitment, involuntary, gravely disabled persons, manifesting self-neglect:
SB 6458 |
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Commitment, involuntary, Indian tribe exclusive jurisdiction, when:
SB 6259 |
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Commitment, involuntary, initial detention and single-bed certifications:
HB 1814, SB 5720, SSB 5720, 2E2SSB 5720 |
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Commitment, involuntary, involuntary treatment act work group, establishing:
SSB 5720, 2E2SSB 5720 |
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Commitment, involuntary, long-term treatment role of community facilities:
SB 5041, SB 5045 |
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Commitment, involuntary, long-term treatment via managed care:
SB 5045 |
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Commitment, involuntary, minor provisions and adult provisions:
HB 1814, SB 5720, SSB 5720, 2E2SSB 5720 |
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Commitment, involuntary, of incapacitated person by guardian:
SB 5114 |
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Commitment, involuntary, person's last known address and voting districts:
SB 5287, SSB 5287,
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2SSB 5287, CH 456 (2019) PV |
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Commitment, involuntary, release to less restrictive alternative:
SB 5038, SB 5040, SB 5048 |
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Commitment, involuntary, various additional provisions:
HB 1814, SB 5720, SSB 5720, 2E2SSB 5720 |
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Commitment, involuntary, video technology use during interview:
HB 2099, ESHB 2099 |
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Costs for care, health care cost transparency board, establishing:
HB 2457 |
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Court appointed resource executor (CARE) officers, pilot program:
SB 6109 |
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Criminally insane, competency evaluations and/or restoration:
HB 1513, SHB 1513, 2SHB 1513, SB 5039, SB 5444, SSB 5444,
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E2SSB 5444, CH 326 (2019) |
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Criminally insane, competency evaluators:
HB 1100, SHB 1100, HB 2301, SB 5046 |
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Criminally insane, competency restoration workers for, PSERS plan 2:
HB 2189 |
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Criminally insane, forensic navigators, appointment of:
HB 1513, SHB 1513, 2SHB 1513, SB 5444, SSB 5444,
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E2SSB 5444, CH 326 (2019) |
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Criminally insane, forensic services, health care information disclosure:
HB 2416 |
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Criminally insane, reentry community safety program:
SB 5048 |
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Deadly force, by officer, mental health training provisions relevant to:
HB 1064,
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SHB 1064, CH 4 (2019), SB 5029 |
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Early learning providers, mental health consultation system:
HB 2661 |
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Electroconvulsant therapy, provisions:
SB 5842 |
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Evaluations, under involuntary treatment act, conducting by video:
HB 1678 |
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Executorships, persons with behavioral health disorders, CARE officers for:
SB 6109 |
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Funding, developmental disabilities and mental health property tax levy:
HB 1718 |
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Geriatric behavioral health workers, provisions:
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HB 1349, CH 12 (2019), SB 5454 |
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Gravely disabled persons, guardianship pilot program:
SB 5114 |
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Gravely disabled persons/minors, manifesting self-neglect, blue flag law:
SB 6458 |
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Health benefit plans, mental health services for, modifying for parity:
HB 1447 |
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Health carrier behavioral health network access standards:
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ESHB 1099, CH 11 (2019) |
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Hospitals, psychiatric, inspection and provisional license:
HB 2426, SB 6274 |
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Hospitals, psychiatric, rate-setting by new commission, when:
HB 1693 |
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Hospitals, state, and community facilities, long-term inpatient care, work group:
HB 1393, SHB 1393, SB 5432, SSB 5432,
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E2SSB 5432, CH 325 (2019) |
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Hospitals, state, community facilities as alternative to:
SB 5041, SB 5045, SB 5537, SSB 5537 |
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Hospitals, state, department of behavioral health facilities, creating:
HB 2054 |
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Incompetent persons, health care informed consent for:
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EHB 1175, CH 209 (2019) |
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Incompetent to stand trial, firearm possession prohibition, when:
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SB 5205, CH 248 (2019) |
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Insanity, not guilty by reason of, driving under influence provisions:
HB 2590 |
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Insanity, not guilty by reason of, restoration of right to possess firearms:
SB 6289 |
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Legislative bills concerning mental health, fiscal notes to include fiscal impact:
SB 5636 |
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Medical assistance, psychiatric per diem payments to rural hospitals:
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HB 1534, CH 116 (2019) |
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Mental health disorders, changing to "behavioral health disorders":
HB 1814, SB 5720, SSB 5720, 2E2SSB 5720 |
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Mental health professionals, providers who qualify as:
HB 1874, SB 5904 |
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Music therapists, licensing of, and advisory committee:
SB 5485, ESSB 5485 |
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Post-traumatic stress disorder, veterans with, military caregivers and spouses caring for, recognizing:
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HR 4645 (2020), SR 8658 |
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Post-traumatic stress injuries, importance of educating victims and public, recognizing:
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SR 8625 (2019) |
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Protection orders, extreme risk, when threat of harm to certain groups:
SB 5745, SSB 5745 |
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Psychologists, reciprocity program:
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SB 5054, CH 351 (2019) PV |
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Psychologists, school, continuing certification, suicide training:
HB 2643 |
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Psychosis, early identification and intervention, specialty care programs for, statewide plan:
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2SSB 5903, CH 360 (2019) |
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Records, mental health services, provider or facility disclosure, when:
SB 5660 |
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Self-harm, potential hotline/program for reporting, establishing:
SB 5835 |
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Self-neglect, gravely disabled persons or minors manifesting, blue flag law:
SB 6458 |
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Sensitive health care services, mental health services as:
SB 5889,
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SSB 5889, CH 56 (2019) |
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Services, disruption by labor unrest, contract assurance, DSHS role:
SB 6096 |
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Students, adverse childhood experiences in healthy youth survey:
SB 6191 |
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Students, behavioral health system for, learning assistance program role:
SB 6132 |
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Students, mental health promotion and suicide prevention program, establishing:
HB 1221 |
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Students, student health and well-being primary contact, in each building:
SB 5685 |
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Students, student supports work group, convening:
HB 1876, SB 5903, SSB 5903 |
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Suicide, "safer homes, suicide aware" task force, project, and account:
HB 1648, SHB 1648 |
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Suicide, alert and response system, work group on enhancing, convening:
HB 2563 |
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Suicide, assessment and treatment training, athletic trainers to complete:
HB 1689, SB 5688,
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ESSB 5688, CH 358 (2019) |
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Suicide, assessment/treatment training for mental health professionals:
HB 2411 |
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Suicide, assessment/treatment training for optometrists:
HB 2411 |
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Suicide, deaths and attempts, data and reporting requirements:
HB 2563 |
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Suicide, mental health promotion and suicide prevention program, establishing:
HB 1221 |
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Suicide, prevention and crisis intervention information on identification cards:
HB 2589, SB 6449 |
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Suicide, prevention awareness training for contractors:
HB 2564 |
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Suicide, prevention training program for health care professionals:
HB 2411 |
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Suicide, prevention training program for veterinarians/veterinary technicians:
HB 2411 |
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Suicide, screening/referral training for educator continuing certification:
HB 2643 |
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Suicide, telehealth training/treatment program to aid at-risk students:
SB 5389, 2ESSB 5389 |
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Suicide, Washington youth suicide review team, establishing:
HB 1240, SHB 1240 |
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Suicide/drug overdose crisis, American Indians/Alaska Natives, addressing:
SB 6258 |
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Telehealth training/treatment program to aid at-risk students:
SB 5389, 2ESSB 5389 |
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Telepsychiatry, offering consultations via, provisions:
SHB 1593,
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E2SHB 1593, CH 323 (2019) |
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Telepsychology, psychology interjurisdictional compact act:
HB 2408 |
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Treatment, admission to certified facility from single bed certification, as priority:
SB 6024 |
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Treatment, certified crisis facilities, behavioral health co-occurring disorders:
SB 6469 |
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Treatment, community behavioral health services act, chapter 71.24 as:
HB 1331, SHB 1331, 2SHB 1331, HB 1393, SHB 1393, SB 5380,
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SSB 5380, CH 314 (2019), SB 5432, SSB 5432,
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E2SSB 5432, CH 325 (2019) |
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Treatment, community facilities for behavioral health, capital improvements:
SB 5537, SSB 5537 |
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Treatment, community facilities for behavioral health, grants for:
SSB 5537 |
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Treatment, community facilities for behavioral health, new types of:
HB 1394, SHB 1394,
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2SHB 1394, CH 324 (2019), SB 5431, SSB 5431, 2SSB 5431 |
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Treatment, community facilities, for persons with violent history, work group:
HB 1828 |
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Treatment, for adolescents, access to:
HB 1874, SHB 1874,
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E2SHB 1874, CH 381 (2019), SB 5904, SSB 5904 |
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Treatment, initial detention and single-bed certifications:
HB 1814, SB 5720, SSB 5720, 2E2SSB 5720 |
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Treatment, involuntary treatment act work group, establishing:
SSB 5720, 2E2SSB 5720 |
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Treatment, long-term inpatient, community and state hospital care, work group:
HB 1393, SHB 1393, SB 5432, SSB 5432,
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E2SSB 5432, CH 325 (2019) |
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Treatment, long-term inpatient, community hospital and facility role:
SB 5041, SB 5045 |
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Treatment, long-term inpatient, discharge planning, criminal history disclosure:
HB 1826, SHB 1826 |
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Treatment, long-term inpatient, managed care capitation risk model:
SB 5045 |
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Treatment, mental health drop-in center services pilot program:
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2SHB 1394, CH 324 (2019) |
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Treatment, mental health peer respite centers:
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2SHB 1394, CH 324 (2019) |
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Treatment, persons with developmental disabilities and behavior health needs:
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2SHB 1394, CH 324 (2019) |
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Treatment, qualified residential programs licensed as group care facilities:
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HB 1900, CH 172 (2019), SB 5826 |
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Treatment, single-bed certification, transfer to evaluation/treatment facility from:
HB 2114 |
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Veterans attending colleges, mental health counselors for:
HB 1716, SB 5428, SSB 5428 |
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Volunteer programs, in state government, review of:
SB 5265,
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SSB 5265, CH 45 (2019) |