CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2310

Chapter 70, Laws of 2014

63rd Legislature
2014 Regular Session



MEDICAID--INDIVIDUAL PROVIDERS--SAFETY EQUIPMENT



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/12/14

Passed by the House February 13, 2014
  Yeas 98   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 7, 2014
  Yeas 49   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2310 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved March 27, 2014, 10:02 a.m.








JAY INSLEE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 27, 2014







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2310
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Passed Legislature - 2014 Regular Session
State of Washington63rd Legislature2014 Regular Session

By House Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Riccelli, Cody, Green, Van De Wege, Tharinger, Morrell, Johnson, Parker, Stonier, Reykdal, Jinkins, and Kochmar)

READ FIRST TIME 02/05/14.   



     AN ACT Relating to safety equipment for individual providers; and adding a new section to chapter 74.39A RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 74.39A RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The legislature finds and declares that universal precautions are important health and safety protections for home care clients and workers who provide direct care for those clients. The use of personal protective equipment such as gloves is an established component of universal precautions and a key tool to protect against exposure to bloodborne pathogens such as hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and human immunodeficiency virus. Most medicaid clients are eligible to receive gloves through their medicaid benefit, yet the majority of clients are not aware of or do not use this benefit and as a result do not have gloves available in the home for individual providers to use. The legislature intends to improve the availability and usage of gloves by individual providers as part of universal precautions by ensuring that medicaid clients access gloves through their medicaid benefit.
     (2) For medicaid clients, the department shall coordinate with the health care authority to assist clients receiving personal care services in accessing gloves as part of their health benefit for individual providers to use in the course of providing tasks where universal precautions are warranted. The assistance by the department and the health care authority must be designed to facilitate clients being able to access gloves on a monthly basis in a cost-effective and easy to access manner and must be consistent with requirements to receive federal matching funds under medicaid.
     (3) In cases where clients are not eligible to receive such gloves under medicaid, the department shall work with the health care authority to develop a methodology to ensure clients have access to gloves on a monthly basis in a cost-effective and easy to access manner.
     (4) The department shall submit a brief report with data on utilization of gloves by clients who are served by individual providers to the health care committees of the legislature by December 1, 2015.


         Passed by the House February 13, 2014.
         Passed by the Senate March 7, 2014.
         Approved by the Governor March 27, 2014.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 27, 2014.