CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5986

                        57th Legislature

                      2001 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 18, 2001   YEAS 45   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 12, 2001   YEAS 96   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5986 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives	Secretary
Speaker of the       House of Representatives

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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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5986

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 2001 Regular Session

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Franklin, Kastama, Long, Regala and Hargrove)

READ FIRST TIME 03/05/01.

Regulating county or local government-owned psychiatric facilities.  

    AN ACT Relating to regulation of county or local government-owned psychiatric facilities; and amending RCW 71.12.455 and 71.12.460.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 71.12.455 and 2000 c 93 s 21 are each amended to read as follows:

    As used in this chapter, "establishment" and "institution" mean and include every private or county or municipal hospital, including public hospital districts, sanitarium, home, or other place receiving or caring for any mentally ill, mentally incompetent person, or chemically dependent person.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 71.12.460 and 2000 c 93 s 22 are each amended to read as follows:

    No person, association, county, municipality, public hospital district, or corporation, shall establish or keep, for compensation or hire, an establishment as defined in this chapter without first having obtained a license therefor from the department of health, complied with rules adopted under this chapter, and paid the license fee provided in this chapter.  Any person who carries on, conducts, or attempts to carry on or conduct an establishment as defined in this chapter without first having obtained a license from the department of health, as in this chapter provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.  The managing and executive officers of any corporation violating the provisions of this chapter shall be liable under the provisions of this chapter in the same manner and to the same effect as a private individual violating the same.

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