CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2838

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 9, 1996   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 29, 1996   Yeas 49   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 HOUSE BILL 2838 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.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                     ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2838

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Representatives Dyer, Cody, Foreman, McMahan, Goldsmith, Huff, Carlson and Robertson

Read first time 01/22/96.  Referred to Committee on Health Care.

Limiting mediation of health care injury disputes.

    AN ACT Relating to mediation of health care injury disputes; and amending RCW 7.70.110.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 7.70.110 and 1993 c 492 s 420 are each amended to read as follows:

    The making of a written, good faith request for mediation of a dispute related to damages for injury occurring as a result of health care ((provided)) prior to filing a cause of action under this chapter shall toll the statute of limitations provided in RCW 4.16.350 for one year.

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