BILL REQ. #:  H-0972.1 

Read first time 02/11/13.   Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

     AN ACT Relating to containing the scope and costs of the diabetes epidemic in Washington; and adding a new chapter to Title 70 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health shall collaborate to identify goals and benchmarks while also developing individual agency plans to reduce the incidence of diabetes in Washington, improve diabetes care, and better control the medical complications and financial impacts associated with diabetes.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health shall submit a coordinated report to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature by December 31, 2014, and every even-numbered year thereafter, on the following:
     (1) The financial impacts and reach diabetes of all types is having on programs administered by the agency and individuals enrolled in those programs. Items included in this assessment must include the number of lives with diabetes impacted or covered by programs administered by each agency, the number of lives with diabetes and family members impacted by prevention and diabetes control programs implemented by the agency, the financial toll or impact diabetes and the complications it places on these programs, and the financial toll or impact diabetes and its complications place on these programs;
     (2) An assessment of the benefits of implemented and existing programs and activities aimed at controlling diabetes and preventing the disease. This assessment must also document the amount and source for any funding directed to the agency for the programs and activities aimed at reaching those with diabetes;
     (3) A description of the level of coordination existing between the agencies on activities, programmatic activities, and messaging on managing, treating, or preventing all forms of diabetes and its complications;
     (4) A development or revision of detailed policy-related action plans and budget recommendations for battling diabetes that includes a range of actionable items for consideration by the legislature. The plans must identify proposed action steps to reduce the impact of diabetes, prediabetes, and related diabetes complications. The plan must also identify expected outcomes of the action steps proposed in the following biennium while also establishing benchmarks for controlling and preventing relevant forms of diabetes; and
     (5) An estimate of savings, efficiencies, costs, and budgetary savings and resources required to implement the plan identified in subsection (4) of this section.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   Sections 1 and 2 of this act constitute a new chapter in Title 70 RCW.