CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

              ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1389

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 8, 1995   Yeas 98   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 11, 1995   Yeas 40   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1389 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                       ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1389

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                     Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

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.

Concerning the supervision of apprentice opticians.

     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 and direct supervision 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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