CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5786
Chapter 88, Laws of 2019
66TH LEGISLATURE
2019 REGULAR SESSION
RELEASE OF RECORDS FOR RESEARCH--HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 28, 2019
Passed by the Senate March 6, 2019
  Yeas 46  Nays 1
KAREN KEISER
President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 11, 2019
  Yeas 97  Nays 0
FRANK CHOPP
Speaker of the House of Representatives
CERTIFICATE
I, Brad Hendrickson, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5786 as passed by Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
BRAD HENDRICKSON
Secretary
Secretary
Approved April 19, 2019 11:46 AM
FILED
April 22, 2019
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington
Secretary of State
State of Washington
SENATE BILL 5786
Passed Legislature - 2019 Regular Session
State of Washington
66th Legislature
2019 Regular Session
BySenators Brown and Palumbo
AN ACT Relating to administrative efficiencies in research in public institutions of higher education; and amending RCW 42.48.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 42.48.010 and 2018 c 58 s 20 are each amended to read as follows:
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Individually identifiable" means that a record contains information which reveals or can likely be associated with the identity of the person or persons to whom the record pertains.
(2) "Legally authorized representative" means a person legally authorized to give consent for the disclosure of personal records on behalf of a minor or a legally incompetent adult.
(3) "Personal record" means any information obtained or maintained by a state agency which refers to a person and which is declared exempt from public disclosure, confidential, or privileged under state or federal law.
(4) "Research" means a planned and systematic sociological, psychological, epidemiological, biomedical, or other scientific investigation carried out by a state agency, by a scientific research professional associated with a bona fide scientific research organization, or by a graduate student currently enrolled in an advanced academic degree curriculum, with an objective to contribute to scientific knowledge, the solution of social and health problems, or the evaluation of public benefit and service programs. This definition excludes methods of record analysis and data collection that are subjective, do not permit replication, and are not designed to yield reliable and valid results.
(5) "Research record" means an item or grouping of information obtained for the purpose of research from or about a person or extracted for the purpose of research from a personal record.
(6) "State agency" means: (a) The department of social and health services; (b) the department of corrections; (c) ((an institution of higher education as defined in RCW 28B.10.016; (d))) the department of health; or (((e)))(d) the department of children, youth, and families.
Passed by the Senate March 6, 2019.
Passed by the House April 11, 2019.
Approved by the Governor April 19, 2019.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 2019.
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