CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5149

Chapter 38, Laws of 2011

62nd Legislature
2011 Regular Session



DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH--CANCER REGISTRY--EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/11

Passed by the Senate February 28, 2011
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 1, 2011
  YEAS 93   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5149 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved April 13, 2011, 1:51 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 13, 2011







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5149
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Passed Legislature - 2011 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2011 Regular Session

By Senators Keiser, Becker, Kohl-Welles, Parlette, Conway, and Kline

Read first time 01/17/11.   Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.



     AN ACT Relating to requiring the department of health to collect current and past employment information in the cancer registry program; and amending RCW 70.54.240.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 70.54.240 and 1990 c 280 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The department of health shall adopt rules as to which types of cancer shall be reported, who shall report, and the form and timing of the reports. A patient's usual occupation or, if the patient is retired, the primary occupation of the patient before retirement must be reported.
     (2) Every health care facility and independent clinical laboratory, and those physicians or others providing health care who diagnose or treat any patient with cancer who is not hospitalized within one month of diagnosis, will provide the contractor with the information required under subsection (1) of this section. The required information may be collected on a regional basis where such a system exists and forwarded to the contractor in a form suitable for the purposes of RCW 70.54.230 through 70.54.270. Such reporting arrangements shall be reduced to a written agreement between the contractor and any regional reporting agency which shall detail the manner, form, and timeliness of the reporting.


         Passed by the Senate February 28, 2011.
         Passed by the House April 1, 2011.
         Approved by the Governor April 13, 2011.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 13, 2011.