HOUSE BILL REPORT

                  HB 1038

             As Reported By House Committee On:

                         Health Care

Title:  An act relating to correcting a double amendment relating to authorized functions of health care assistants.

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

Sponsors:  Representative Dellwo; by request of Law Revision Commission.

Brief History:

  Reported by House Committee on:

Health Care, February 12, 1993, DP.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE

Majority Report:  Do pass.  Signed by 14 members:  Representatives Dellwo, Chair; L. Johnson, Vice Chair; Dyer, Ranking Minority Member; Ballasiotes, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Appelwick; Campbell; Conway; Cooke; Flemming; R. Johnson; Lisk; Morris; Thibaudeau; and Veloria.

Staff:  John Welsh (786-7133).

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 of Bill:  The section is reenacted incorporating the two disparate amendments in a manner consistent with proper drafting.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  This is necessary for maintaining proper standards of code revision.

Testimony Against:  None.

Witnesses:  None.