"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   A new section is added to chapter 18.135 RCW to read as follows:
     This chapter does not prohibit or restrict the performance of blood-drawing procedures by health care assistants in the residences of research study participants when such procedures have been authorized by the institutional review board of a comprehensive cancer center or nonprofit degree-granting institution of higher education and are conducted under the general supervision of a physician.

Sec. 3   RCW 18.135.040 and 1984 c 281 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     A certification issued to a health care assistant pursuant to this chapter shall be authority to perform only the functions authorized in RCW 18.135.010 subject to proper delegation and supervision in the health care facility making the certification or under the supervision of the certifying health care practitioner in other health care facilities or in his or her office or in the residences of research study participants in accordance with section 2 of this act. No certification made by one health care facility or health care practitioner is transferrable to another health care facility or health care practitioner."