SENATE BILL REPORT

                            HB 1038

     AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES,

                        MARCH 19, 1993

Brief Description:  Correcting a double amendment related to authorized functions of health care assistants.

SPONSORS: Representative Dellwo; by request of Law Revision Commission

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE

SENATE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Majority Report:  Do pass. 

     Signed by Senators Talmadge, Chairman; Wojahn, Vice Chairman; Franklin, Fraser, McAuliffe, McDonald, Moyer, Prentice, Quigley, and Winsley.

Staff:  Scott Plack (786‑7409)

Hearing Dates: March 19, 1993

BACKGROUND:

A section of the law pertaining to the scope of practice of a health care assistant was amended twice during the 1986 legislative session, each without reference to the other.  The two amendments were drafted in a manner that could not be reconciled without the section appearing twice in the code.

SUMMARY:

The section is reenacted incorporating the two amendments.

Appropriation:  none

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  none requested

TESTIMONY FOR:  None

TESTIMONY AGAINST:  None

TESTIFIED:  No one