CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5146

Chapter 169, Laws of 2005

59th Legislature
2005 Regular Session



QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE MEETINGS--CONFIDENTIALITY



EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/24/05

Passed by the Senate March 8, 2005
  YEAS 46   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 5, 2005
  YEAS 93   NAYS 1

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5146 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved April 22, 2005.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 22, 2005 - 4:26 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5146
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Passed Legislature - 2005 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2005 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Keiser, Parlette, Kastama and Brandland)

READ FIRST TIME 02/14/05.   



     AN ACT Relating to allowing confidential quality improvement committee meetings, proceedings, and deliberations; and amending RCW 70.44.062.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 70.44.062 and 1985 c 166 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) All meetings, proceedings, and deliberations of the board of commissioners, its staff or agents, concerning the granting, denial, revocation, restriction, or other consideration of the status of the clinical or staff privileges of a physician or other health care provider as that term is defined in RCW 7.70.020, if such other providers at the discretion of the district's commissioners are considered for such privileges, shall be confidential and may be conducted in executive session: PROVIDED, That the final action of the board as to the denial, revocation, or restriction of clinical or staff privileges of a physician or other health care provider as defined in RCW 7.70.020 shall be done in public session.
     (2) All meetings, proceedings, and deliberations of a quality improvement committee established under RCW 4.24.250, 43.70.510, or 70.41.200 and all meetings, proceedings, and deliberations of the board of commissioners, its staff or agents, to review the report or the activities of a quality improvement committee established under RCW 4.24.250, 43.70.510, or 70.41.200 may, at the discretion of the quality improvement committee or the board of commissioners, be confidential and may be conducted in executive session. Any review conducted by the board of commissioners or quality improvement committee, or their staffs or agents, shall be subject to the same protections, limitations, and exemptions that apply to quality improvement committee activities under RCW 4.24.240, 4.24.250, 43.70.510, and 70.41.200. However, any final action of the board of commissioners on the report of the quality improvement committee shall be done in public session.


         Passed by the Senate March 8, 2005.
         Passed by the House April 5, 2005.
         Approved by the Governor April 22, 2005.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 2005.