CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1838

                   Chapter 179, Laws of 1999

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

IMPAIRED DENTIST PROGRAM--SURCHARGE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House April 19, 1999   Yeas 94   Nays 3              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the House of Representatives               FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 1999   Yeas 45   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1838  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.            DEAN R. FOSTER                           Chief Clerk           TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

Approved May 5, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                               May 5, 1999 - 3:57 p.m.
GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1838

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Schual‑Berke, Mulliken and Ogden)

Read first time 02/25/1999.  Referred to Committee on .

Creating the impaired dentist account.   

    AN ACT Relating to the impaired dentist program; and amending RCW 18.32.534.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 18.32.534 and 1994 sp.s. c 9 s 220 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) To implement an impaired dentist program as authorized by RCW 18.130.175, the commission shall enter into a contract with a voluntary substance abuse monitoring program.  The impaired dentist program may include any or all of the following:

    (a) Contracting with providers of treatment programs;

    (b) Receiving and evaluating reports of suspected impairment from any source;

    (c) Intervening in cases of verified impairment;

    (d) Referring impaired dentists to treatment programs;

    (e) Monitoring the treatment and rehabilitation of impaired dentists including those ordered by the commission;

    (f) Providing education, prevention of impairment, posttreatment monitoring, and support of rehabilitated impaired dentists; and

    (g) Performing other related activities as determined by the commission.

    (2) A contract entered into under subsection (1) of this section shall be financed by a surcharge of up to ((fifteen)) twenty-five dollars on each license issuance or renewal to be collected by the department of health from every dentist licensed under chapter 18.32 RCW.  These moneys shall be placed in the health professions account to be used solely for the implementation of the impaired dentist program.

    Passed the House April 19, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 6, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 5, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 5, 1999.