CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5592
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate March 4, 2024
  Yeas 48  Nays 0
President of the Senate
Passed by the House February 29, 2024
  Yeas 72  Nays 24
Speaker of the House of Representatives
CERTIFICATE
I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5592 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
Secretary
Secretary
Approved
FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington
ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5592
AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2023 Regular Session
BySenators Hunt, Cleveland, Conway, Lovick, Randall, Valdez, Van De Wege, and C. Wilson
Read first time 01/27/23.Referred to Committee on Health & Long Term Care.
AN ACT Relating to requiring semiautomatic external defibrillators at fitness centers; and adding a new section to chapter 70.54 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 70.54 RCW to read as follows:
(1) The owner of a fitness center shall acquire and maintain at least one semiautomatic external defibrillator on premises.
(2) The fitness center must comply with the requirements of RCW 70.54.310, including instruction of personnel on the use of the defibrillator, maintenance of the defibrillator, and notification of the local emergency medical services organization about the location of the defibrillator.
(3) An employee of a fitness center who has completed the instruction required under RCW 70.54.310 may render emergency care or treatment using a semiautomatic external defibrillator on the fitness center premises.
(4) A person who uses a semiautomatic external defibrillator at the scene of an emergency is immune from civil liability pursuant to RCW 70.54.310.
(5)(a) "Fitness center" means any premises used for recreation, instruction, training, physical exercise, body building, weight loss, figure development, martial arts, or other similar activity, that offers access on a membership basis.
(b) "Fitness center" does not include: (i) Public common schools, private schools approved under RCW 28A.195.010, and public or private institutions of higher education; (ii) facilities operated by bona fide nonprofit organizations which have been granted tax-exempt status by the internal revenue service, the functions of which as fitness centers are only incidental to their overall functions; and (iii) private facilities operated out of a home that do not offer memberships.
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