Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"Sec. 1.  RCW 74.39A.341 and 2015 c 152 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) All long-term care workers shall complete twelve hours of continuing education training in advanced training topics each year. ((This requirement applies beginning July 1, 2012.))

(2) Of the twelve hours of continuing education training required by subsection (1) of this section, time must be allocated for training on cultural competency issues. Cultural competency issues include issues related to race, gender, age, disability, the LGBTQ population, and other issues identified by the department. The training must promote an environment free of interference, coercion, discrimination, and retaliation.

(3) Completion of continuing education as required in this section is a prerequisite to maintaining home care aide certification under chapter 18.88B RCW.

(((3))) (4) Unless voluntarily certified as a home care aide under chapter 18.88B RCW, subsection (1) of this section does not apply to:

(a) An individual provider caring only for his or her biological, step, or adoptive parent or child;

(b) Registered nurses and licensed practical nurses licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW;

(c) ((Before January 1, 2016, a long-term care worker employed by a community residential service business;

(d))) A person working as an individual provider who provides twenty hours or less of care for one person in any calendar month; or

(((e))) (d) A person working as an individual provider who only provides respite services and works less than three hundred hours in any calendar year.

(((4))) (5) Only training curriculum approved by the department may be used to fulfill the training requirements specified in this section. The department shall only approve training curriculum that:

(a) Has been developed with input from consumer and worker representatives; and

(b) Requires comprehensive instruction by qualified instructors.

(((5))) (6) Individual providers under RCW 74.39A.270 shall be compensated for training time required by this section.

(((6))) (7) The department of health shall adopt rules to implement subsection (1) of this section.

(((7))) (8) The department shall adopt rules to implement subsections (2) and (3) of this section."

On page 1, line 2 of the title, after "population;" strike the remainder of the title and insert "and amending RCW 74.39A.341."

EFFECT: Modifies the LGBTQ training requirement for long-term care workers to a cultural competency training requirement. Removes the requirement that owners or administrators of long-term care facilities must complete the LGBTQ training.