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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6213

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Deccio and Winsley)

Read first time 02/02/2000.

Requiring guidelines for the response of emergency medical personnel to directives.

    AN ACT Relating to guidelines for emergency medical personnel when dealing with directives; and amending RCW 43.70.480.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.70.480 and 1992 c 98 s 14 are each amended to read as follows:

    The department of health shall adopt guidelines and protocols for how emergency medical personnel shall respond when summoned to the site of an injury or illness for the treatment of a person who has signed a written directive or durable power of attorney requesting that he or she not receive futile emergency medical treatment.

The guidelines shall include development of a simple form that shall be used state-wide.

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