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HOUSE BILL NO. 1933
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State of Washington 51st Legislature 1989 Regular Session
By Representatives Schoon and Braddock
Read first time 2/10/89 and referred to Committee on Health Care.
AN ACT Relating to physicians' assistants; and amending RCW 18.71A.060.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 6, chapter 30, Laws of 1971 ex. sess. as amended by section 21, chapter 77, Laws of 1973 and RCW 18.71A.060 are each amended to read as follows:
No health care services may be performed under this chapter in any of the following areas:
(1) ((The
measurement of the powers or range of human vision, or the determination of the
accommodation and refractive state of the human eye or the scope of its
functions in general, or the fitting or adaptation of lenses or frames for the
aid thereof.
(2) The prescribing
or directing the use of, or using, any optical device in connection with ocular
exercises, visual training, vision training or orthoptics.
(3) The
prescribing of contact lenses for, or the fitting or adaptation of contact
lenses to, the human eye.
(4) Nothing
in this section shall preclude the performance of routine visual screening.
(5))) The practice of dentistry or dental hygiene as defined
in chapters 18.32 and 18.29 RCW respectively. The exemptions set forth in RCW
18.32.030, paragraphs (1) and (8), shall not apply to a physician's assistant.
(((6)))
(2) The practice of chiropractic as defined in chapter 18.25 RCW
including the adjustment or manipulation of the articulations of the spine.
(((7)))
(3) The practice of podiatry as defined in chapter 18.22 RCW.