Health care - Comments and Associated Bills
Issue Comments
Bills associated with this Issue
Requiring health care professionals to report violent injuries.Revised for 1st Substitute: Requiring health care professionals to report patient information in cases of violent injury.
May 6 - Governor signed.
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Concerning administrative procedures for payors and providers of health care services.
Apr 30 - Governor signed.
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Establishing a community health care collaborative grant program.
Apr 30 - Governor partially vetoed.
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Establishing rates for medically intensive home health care.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Requiring language access services for persons with limited English proficiency in health care and insurance matters.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Creating the Washington health care discount plan organization act.
Apr 22 - Governor signed.
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Requiring school districts or educational service districts to purchase employee health insurance coverage through the state health care authority.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning online access to the University of Washington health sciences library by certain health care providers.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Establishing a community health care collaborative grant program.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Regarding meal and rest periods for employees of health care facilities.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning administrative procedures for payors and providers of health care services.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Limiting the exceptions to the prohibition on mandatory overtime for employees of health care facilities.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Providing health care provider right of conscience.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Regarding hours of labor for health care employees.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Making health care providers' billing statements admissible.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Making health care providers' billing statements admissible.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Allowing certain health care coverage deductions from the calculation of disposable income for the purpose of qualifying for senior property tax programs.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Expanding the application of the prohibition on mandatory overtime for employees of health care facilities.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Limiting maximum capital and reserves accumulations by health care service contractors and health maintenance organizations.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning alternative health care practitioners.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning employee health care options.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Providing tax incentives for the purchase of health care plans.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning alternative health care practitioners.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning the shortage of health care professionals.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning health care financing.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Requiring that school district and educational service district employees' basic benefits be determined and administered by the state health care authority.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Establishing the office of the health care authority ombudsman.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Establishing the office of the health care authority ombudsman.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning health care assistants.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Authorizing the indirect supervision of certain health care services provided through naturopathic doctors.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Creating the Washington health care discount plan organization act.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning prescription drug use in state purchased health care programs.
May 19 - Governor signed.
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Creating a health care council.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning online access to the University of Washington health sciences library by certain health care providers.
May 19 - Governor partially vetoed.
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Regarding public employees' health care costs.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Reforming the health care system in Washington state.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning health care coverage for children.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning children's health care coverage.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning health care.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Requiring school districts or educational service districts to purchase employee health insurance coverage through the state health care authority.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning health care contracts.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Prohibiting retail establishments from selling tobacco products where the establishment has a health care clinic on the premises.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning health care financing.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning health care financing.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Relating to health care programs to implement the 2009-2011 operating budget.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Funding health care and the working families' tax rebate with a voter-approved temporary sales tax increase.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Extending immunity from liability to certain health care providers.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning emergency health care services.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Adopting the Washington state health care freedom act of 2010 concerning health care services.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Exempting ambulances and aid vehicles from the requirement to post notices about estimates for health care fees and charges.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning basic health care coverage.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Providing for health care liability reform.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Applying the prohibition against unfair practices by insurers and their remedies and penalties to the state health care authority.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning the licensing surcharge for certain health care professions.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning health care benefits for marine employees of the department of transportation.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Establishing a commission on health care insurance reform.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Increasing state revenues to preserve funding for education, public safety, health care, and safety net services for elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people by preventing abusive tax avoidance transactions, narrowing or eliminating certain tax preferences, and providing equitable tax treatment.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning emergency health care services.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Requiring hospitals to adopt policies concerning vaccination of health care workers.
Feb 1 - Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 1:30 PM.
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Exempting ambulances and aid vehicles from the requirement to post notices about estimates for health care fees and charges.
Jan 27 - Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
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Adopting the Washington state health care freedom act of 2010 concerning health care services.
Jan 15 - First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care.
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Applying the prohibition against unfair practices by insurers and their remedies and penalties to the state health care authority.Revised for 1st Substitute: Monitoring and reporting customer complaints and appeals to the state health care authority.
Mar 6 - Delivered to Governor.
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Concerning health care benefits for marine employees of the department of transportation.
Mar 11 - By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading.
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Relating to modifying Washington state excise tax laws to create jobs and to preserve funding for education, public safety, health care, and safety net services for elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people.Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying Washington state excise tax laws to create jobs and to preserve funding for education, public safety, health care, and safety net services for elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Concerning the authority of the health care authority to offer health coverage plans to nonsubsidized enrollees.
Mar 15 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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