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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1389
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Dyer and Morris)
Read first time 02/20/95.
AN ACT Relating to apprenticeship supervision by a physician, registered optometrist, or dispensing optician; and amending RCW 18.34.020 and 18.34.030.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.34.020 and 1991 c 3 s 74 are each amended to read as follows:
The
term "secretary" wherever used in this chapter shall mean the
secretary of health of the state of Washington. The term
"apprentice" wherever used in this chapter shall mean a person who
shall be designated an apprentice in the records of the secretary at the
request of a physician, registered optometrist, or licensee hereunder,
((and)) who shall thereafter be the primary supervisor of the
apprentice. The apprentice may thereafter receive from ((such)) a
physician, registered optometrist, or licensee hereunder training and
direct supervision in the work of a dispensing optician.
Sec. 2. RCW 18.34.030 and 1991 c 3 s 75 are each amended to read as follows:
No
licensee hereunder may have more than two apprentices in training or under
their direct supervision at any one time((: PROVIDED, That)).
However, the ((licensee)) primary supervisor shall be
responsible for the acts of his or her apprentices in the performance of their
work in the apprenticeship program((: PROVIDED FURTHER, That)) and
provide the majority of the training received by the apprentice. Apprentices
shall complete their apprenticeship in six years and shall not work longer as
an apprentice unless the secretary determines, after a hearing, that the
apprentice was prevented by causes beyond his or her control from completing
his or her apprenticeship and becoming a licensee hereunder in six years.
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