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HOUSE BILL 2048
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Moyer, Prentice, Paris, Braddock, Holland, Sprenkle, D. Sommers, Beck, Miller, Nealey, Padden, Winsley, Forner, Silver and Sheldon.
Read first time February 20, 1991. Referred to Committee on Health Care.
AN ACT Relating to license renewal fees; and amending RCW 18.71.080.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.71.080 and 1985 c 322 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Every person licensed to practice medicine in this state shall register with the director of licensing annually, and pay an annual renewal registration fee determined by the director as provided in RCW 43.24.086. The board may establish rules and regulations governing mandatory continuing education requirements which shall be met by physicians applying for renewal of licenses. Any failure to register and pay the annual renewal registration fee shall render the license invalid, but such license shall be reinstated upon written application therefor to the director, and payment to the state of a penalty fee determined by the director as provided in RCW 43.24.086, together with all delinquent annual license renewal fees: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That any person who fails to renew the license for a period of three years, shall in no event be entitled to renew the license under this section. Such a person in order to obtain a license to practice medicine in this state, shall file an original application as provided for in this chapter, along with the requisite fee therefor. The board, in its sole discretion, may permit such applicant to be licensed without examination if it is satisfied that such applicant meets all the requirements for licensure in this state, and is competent to engage in the practice of medicine.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the board by rule shall establish parameters of medical practice for those licensed physicians who are sixty-five years of age and older, and who make application to the board for practice on an intermittent or provisional basis. The department shall establish a reduced license fee in accordance with RCW 43.70.250 for those physicians registered with the board who meet the board's requirements for intermittent practice.