BILL REQ. #:  S-4432.1 

READ FIRST TIME 02/03/12.   

     AN ACT Relating to establishing a work group to study funding and service delivery methods that will ensure a sustainable local public health system; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   (1) Statewide organizations representing local public health officials, counties, and cities must convene a work group that includes four local health jurisdiction representatives, two elected county representatives, two elected city representatives, and the secretary of the department of health or his or her designee. The work group must develop recommendations to the legislature on preferred funding and service delivery methods that will ensure the presence of a cost-effective, nimble, responsive, and sustainable public health system throughout Washington. All necessary efforts must be made to ensure that work group members represent the economic and geographic diversity of Washington's local health jurisdictions, counties, and cities.
     (2) The work group shall submit its initial recommendations to the appropriate legislative committees by January 1, 2013.
     (3) This section expires June 30, 2013.