CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1966

Chapter 264, Laws of 2007

60th Legislature
2007 Regular Session



PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS--DOCUMENTS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/07

Passed by the House April 14, 2007
  Yeas 94   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 9, 2007
  Yeas 46   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1966 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


RICHARD NAFZIGER
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Chief Clerk
Approved May 2, 2007, 10:45 a.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
May 3, 2007







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1966
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

Passed Legislature - 2007 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2007 Regular Session

By Representatives Curtis, Cody, Skinner, Morrell, Green, Barlow, Darneille, Ormsby and Schual-Berke

Read first time 02/02/2007.   Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.



     AN ACT Relating to physician assistants signing and attesting to documents; adding a new section to chapter 18.57A RCW; adding a new section to chapter 18.71A RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature finds that some state agencies and departments do not accept the signature of physician assistants on certain certificates, reports, and other documents that their supervising physician is permitted to sign, notwithstanding the fact that the signing of such documents is within the physician assistant's scope of practice, covered under their practice arrangement plan, and permitted pursuant to WAC 246-918-140.
     It is therefore the intent of the legislature to clarify in statute what was adopted by rule in WAC 246-918-140, that a physician assistant may sign and attest to any document that might ordinarily be signed by the supervising physician and that is consistent with the terms of the practice arrangement plan.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   A new section is added to chapter 18.57A RCW to read as follows:
     An osteopathic physician's assistant may sign and attest to any certificates, cards, forms, or other required documentation that the osteopathic physician's assistant's supervising osteopathic physician or osteopathic physician group may sign, provided that it is within the osteopathic physician's assistant's scope of practice and is consistent with the terms of the osteopathic physician's assistant's practice arrangement plan as required by this chapter.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   A new section is added to chapter 18.71A RCW to read as follows:
     A physician assistant may sign and attest to any certificates, cards, forms, or other required documentation that the physician assistant's supervising physician or physician group may sign, provided that it is within the physician assistant's scope of practice and is consistent with the terms of the physician assistant's practice arrangement plan as required by this chapter.


         Passed by the House April 14, 2007.
         Passed by the Senate April 9, 2007.
         Approved by the Governor May 2, 2007.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 3, 2007.