BILL REQ. #:  H-4389.1 

Read first time 01/16/08.   Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

     AN ACT Relating to membership of the dental quality assurance commission; amending RCW 18.32.0351 and 18.32.0351; providing an effective date; and providing an expiration date.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 18.32.0351 and 1994 sp.s. c 9 s 204 are each amended to read as follows:
     The Washington state dental quality assurance commission is established, consisting of ((fourteen)) eighteen members each appointed by the governor to a four-year term. No member may serve more than two consecutive full terms. In appointing the initial members of the commission, it is the intent of the legislature that, to the extent possible, members of the previous boards and committees regulating these professions be appointed to the commission. Members of the commission hold office until their successors are appointed. The governor may appoint members of the initial commission to staggered terms of from one to four years. Thereafter, all members shall be appointed to full four-year terms. ((Twelve)) Fifteen members of the commission must be dentists and ((two)) three members must be public members.

Sec. 2   RCW 18.32.0351 and 2007 c 269 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:
     The Washington state dental quality assurance commission is established, consisting of ((sixteen)) twenty members each appointed by the governor to a four-year term. No member may serve more than two consecutive full terms. In appointing the initial members of the commission, it is the intent of the legislature that, to the extent possible, members of the previous boards and committees regulating these professions be appointed to the commission. Members of the commission hold office until their successors are appointed. The governor may appoint members of the initial commission to staggered terms of from one to four years. Thereafter, all members shall be appointed to full four-year terms. ((Twelve)) Fifteen members of the commission must be dentists, two members must be expanded function dental auxiliaries licensed under chapter 18.260 RCW, and ((two)) three members must be public members.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   Section 1 of this act expires July 1, 2009.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4   Section 2 of this act takes effect July 1, 2009.