1058 AAS 4/6/93 S2641.1

HB 1058 - S COMM AMD

By Committee on Health & Human Services

                                                    ADOPTED 4/6/93

    Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.44 RCW to read as follows:

    Public hospital districts may employ chaplains for their hospitals, health care facilities, and hospice programs.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect on January 1, 1994, if the proposed amendment to Article I, section 11 of the state Constitution authorizing the legislature to permit public hospital districts to employ chaplains is validly submitted to and is approved and ratified by the voters at the next general election held.  If the proposed amendment is not so approved and ratified, this act is void in its entirety."

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