CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1535
Chapter 133, Laws of 1997
55th Legislature
1997 Regular Session
NATUROPATHIC HEALTH CARE
PRACTITIONERS--CERTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE ASSISTANTS
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the House March 6,
1997
Yeas 94 Nays 0
 CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 10, 1997
Yeas 48 Nays 0
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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 1535 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate
on the dates hereon set forth.
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BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
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 TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief Clerk
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Approved April 22, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 22, 1997 - 4:13 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1535
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/25/97.
Declaring a naturopath a health care practitioner for
certain purposes.
AN
ACT Relating to naturopathic health care practitioners; and reenacting and
amending RCW 18.135.020.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
18.135.020 and 1994 sp.s. c 9 s 719 and 1994 c 76 s 1 are each reenacted and
amended to read as follows:
As
used in this chapter:
(1)
"Secretary" means the secretary of health.
(2)
"Health care assistant" means an unlicensed person who assists a
licensed health care practitioner in providing health care to patients pursuant
to this chapter. However persons trained by a federally approved end-stage
renal disease facility who perform end-stage renal dialysis are exempt from
certification under this chapter.
(3)
"Health care practitioner" means:
(a)
A physician licensed under chapter 18.71 RCW;
(b)
An osteopathic physician or surgeon licensed under chapter 18.57 RCW; or
(c)
Acting within the scope of their respective licensure, a podiatric physician
and surgeon licensed under chapter 18.22 RCW ((or)), a registered
nurse or advanced registered nurse practitioner licensed under chapter 18.79
RCW, or a naturopath licensed under chapter 18.36A RCW.
(4)
"Supervision" means supervision of procedures permitted pursuant to
this chapter by a health care practitioner who is physically present and is
immediately available in the facility during the administration of injections,
as defined in this chapter, but need not be present during procedures to
withdraw blood.
(5)
"Health care facility" means any hospital, hospice care center,
licensed or certified health care facility, health maintenance organization
regulated under chapter 48.46 RCW, federally qualified health maintenance
organization, renal dialysis center or facility federally approved under 42
C.F.R. 405.2100, blood bank federally licensed under 21 C.F.R. 607, or clinical
laboratory certified under 20 C.F.R. 405.1301‑16.
(6)
"Delegation" means direct authorization granted by a licensed health
care practitioner to a health care assistant to perform the functions
authorized in this chapter which fall within the scope of practice of the
delegator and which are not within the scope of practice of the delegatee.
Passed the House March 6, 1997.
Passed the Senate April 10, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 22, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 1997.