CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5601

Chapter 256, Laws of 2003

58th Legislature
2003 Regular Session



PHYSICIANS--COMMUNITY CLINICS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/03

Passed by the Senate March 13, 2003
  YEAS 34   NAYS 15

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 14, 2003
  YEAS 84   NAYS 12

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Milton H. Doumit, Jr., Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5601 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

MILTON H. DOUMIT JR.
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Secretary
Approved May 12, 2003.








GARY LOCKE
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Governor of the State of Washington		 
FILED
May 12, 2003 - 4:35 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5601
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Passed Legislature - 2003 Regular Session
State of Washington58th Legislature2003 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Senators McCaslin and Deccio)

READ FIRST TIME 02/21/03.   



     AN ACT Relating to physicians providing care at community clinics; and amending RCW 4.24.300.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 4.24.300 and 1985 c 443 s 19 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Any person, including but not limited to a volunteer provider of emergency or medical services, who without compensation or the expectation of compensation renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency or who participates in transporting, not for compensation, therefrom an injured person or persons for emergency medical treatment shall not be liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission in the rendering of such emergency care or in transporting such persons, other than acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. Any person rendering emergency care during the course of regular employment and receiving compensation or expecting to receive compensation for rendering such care is excluded from the protection of this subsection.
     (2) Any physician licensed under chapter 18.57 or 18.71 RCW in the state of Washington who, without compensation or the expectation of compensation, provides health care services at a community clinic that is a public or private tax exempt corporation is not liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission in the rendering of such care, other than acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.


         Passed by the Senate March 13, 2003.
         Passed by the House April 14, 2003.
         Approved by the Governor May 12, 2003.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 12, 2003.