CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2188

                   Chapter 195, Laws of 1996

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

                PHYSICIAN'S LICENSES--REVOCATION

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/6/96

Passed by the House March 4, 1996   Yeas 94   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 1, 1996   Yeas 43   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 SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2188 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

Approved March 28, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 28, 1996 - 4:08 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2188

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Backlund, Hymes, Dyer, Sherstad and Horn)

Read first time 01/25/96.

Requiring a majority vote of the medical quality assurance commission to revoke a physician's license. 

    AN ACT Relating to the revocation of a physician's license; and amending RCW 18.71.019.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 18.71.019 and 1994 sp.s. c 9 s 305 are each amended to read as follows:

    The Uniform Disciplinary Act, chapter 18.130 RCW, governs unlicensed practice and the issuance and denial of licenses and discipline of licensees under this chapter.  When a panel of the commission revokes a license, the respondent may request review of the revocation order of the panel by the remaining members of the commission not involved in the initial investigation.  The respondent's request for review must be filed within twenty days of the effective date of the order revoking the respondent's license.  The review shall be scheduled for hearing by the remaining members of the commission not involved in the initial investigation within sixty days.  The commission shall adopt rules establishing review procedures.

    Passed the House March 4, 1996.

    Passed the Senate March 1, 1996.

Approved by the Governor March 28, 1996.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 28, 1996.