CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1503
68TH LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House April 13, 2023 Yeas 96 Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 2023 Yeas 47 Nays 1
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1503 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1503
AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session
State of Washington | 68th Legislature | 2023 Regular Session |
ByHouse Postsecondary Education & Workforce (originally sponsored by Representatives Riccelli, Santos, Reeves, Macri, and Reed)
READ FIRST TIME 02/06/23.
AN ACT Relating to the collection of health care professionals' information at the time of license application and license renewal; and adding a new section to chapter
18.130 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter
18.130 RCW to read as follows:
(1) All applicants who submit applications for licensure on or after January 1, 2025, shall provide the following information with their application:
(a) Race;
(b) Ethnicity;
(c) Gender;
(d) Languages spoken;
(e) Provider specialty, where applicable;
(f) Primary practice location, if known at the time of application; and
(g) Secondary practice location, if applicable and if known at the time of application.
(2) All license holders shall provide the following information when they renew their licenses on or after January 1, 2025, in addition to any other information required by the relevant disciplining authority:
(a) The information in subsection (1)(a) through (e) of this section, except, after license holders provide this information one time, they shall be required to provide only changes to this information with subsequent renewals;
(b) Whether the licensee is currently practicing;
(c) Primary practice location at the time of renewal; and
(d) Secondary practice location at the time of renewal, if applicable.
(3) The form used to collect information under this section must include the same race and ethnicity categories and subgroups required for the collection of student-level data in RCW
28A.300.042 (1) and (3).
(4) The department shall not sell the information collected pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) of this section to any third party.
(5) Applicants and licensees subject to demographic and practice information provision requirements under chapters
18.71, 18.71A, and
18.71B RCW are exempt from the requirements of this section.
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