BILL REQ. #:  H-0444.1 

Read first time 01/14/2003.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

     AN ACT Relating to protecting persons who provide volunteer emergency care; and amending RCW 4.24.300.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 4.24.300 and 1985 c 443 s 19 are each amended to read as follows:
     Any person, including but not limited to ((a)) health care professionals, health care personnel, and volunteer providers of emergency or medical services, who, without compensation or the expectation of compensation renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency or who participates in transporting, not for compensation or the expectation of compensation, therefrom an injured person or persons for emergency medical treatment shall not be liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission in the rendering of such emergency care or in transporting such persons, other than acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. Any person rendering emergency care during the course of regular employment and receiving compensation or expecting to receive compensation for rendering such care is excluded from the protection of this subsection.