CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2376

Chapter 24, Laws of 2006

59th Legislature
2006 Regular Session



COST-SHARING IN MEDICAL PROGRAMS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/7/06

Passed by the House February 8, 2006
  Yeas 74   Nays 24

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate February 28, 2006
  Yeas 34   Nays 11


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate		 
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2376 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


RICHARD NAFZIGER
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Chief Clerk
Approved March 9, 2006.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington		 
FILED
March 9, 2006 - 1:50 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2376
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Passed Legislature - 2006 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2006 Regular Session

By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Clibborn, Morrell, Murray, Wallace, Cody, Schual-Berke, Simpson, Green, Sells, Ormsby, Appleton, Fromhold, Hunt, Kenney, Kessler, Lantz, Miloscia, Moeller and Williams; by request of Governor Gregoire)

READ FIRST TIME 01/18/06.   



     AN ACT Relating to repealing cost-sharing in medical programs; and amending RCW 74.09.055.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 74.09.055 and 2003 1st sp.s. c 14 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     The department is authorized to establish copayment, deductible, or coinsurance, or other cost-sharing requirements for recipients of any medical programs defined in RCW 74.09.010, except that premiums shall not be imposed on children in households at or below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level.


         Passed by the House February 8, 2006.
         Passed by the Senate February 28, 2006.
         Approved by the Governor March 9, 2006.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 9, 2006.