Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
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NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter
43.71B RCW to read as follows:
(1) State agencies that are members of the governor's Indian health advisory council under RCW
43.71B.020(1)(b)(i) shall, no later than July 31, 2029, develop tribal data policies that are consistent with the following tribal data sovereignty principles adopted by the advisory council:
(a) Tribes must have the same or enhanced access to state data as other public health jurisdictions and nongovernmental entities to effectively carry out their governmental duties including preventing and controlling infectious and noninfectious conditions, providing health care services, and improving the health status of their community members;
(b) Tribes must possess the inherent sovereign authority to manage the collection, ownership, application, and interpretation of their own data; and
(c) When a tribe's data is located in a state dataset, the state agency has a government-to-government responsibility to consult and engage with the tribes in accordance with chapter
43.376 RCW on how the agency shares, analyzes, reports, or interprets tribal data.
(2) State agencies that are members of the governor's Indian health advisory council under RCW
43.71B.020(1)(b)(i) shall:
(a) When developing data sharing agreements, include tribal data sovereignty principles provided in this section;
(b) Refer to the governor's Indian health advisory council tribal data sharing agreement checklist in the development of tribal data sharing agreements; and
(c) Seek input and guidance from the governor's Indian health advisory council tribal data sovereignty committee for implementation of this section and on any other issues related to tribal data.
(3) Nothing in this chapter requires an agency to derive tribal membership, tribal affiliation, identification of a tribe, or a tribe's jurisdiction where such information is not collected or is not reasonably known.
Sec. 2. RCW
43.71B.010 and 2020 c 256 s 102 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Advisory council" means the governor's Indian health advisory council established in RCW
43.71B.020.
(2) "Advisory plan" means the plan described in RCW
43.71B.030.
(3) "American Indian" or "Alaska Native" means any individual who is: (a) A member of a federally recognized tribe; or (b) eligible for the Indian health service.
(4) "Authority" means the health care authority.
(5) "Board" means the northwest Portland area Indian health board, an Oregon nonprofit corporation wholly controlled by the tribes in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
(6) "Commission" means the American Indian health commission for Washington state, a Washington nonprofit corporation wholly controlled by the tribes and urban Indian organizations in the state.
(7) "Community health aide" means a tribal community health provider certified by a community health aide program of the Indian health service or one or more tribes or tribal organizations consistent with the provisions of 25 U.S.C. Sec. 1616l, who can perform a wide range of duties within the provider's scope of certified practice in health programs of a tribe, tribal organization, Indian health service facility, or urban Indian organization to improve access to culturally appropriate, quality care for American Indians and Alaska Natives and their families and communities, including but not limited to community health aides, community health practitioners, behavioral health aides, behavioral health practitioners, dental health aides, and dental health aide therapists.
(8) "Community health aide program" means a community health aide certification board for the state consistent with 25 U.S.C. Sec. 1616l and the training programs and certification requirements established thereunder.
(9) "Fee-for-service" means the state's medicaid program for which payments are made under the state plan, without a managed care entity, in accordance with the fee-for-service payment methodology.
(10) "Historical trauma" means situations where a community experienced traumatic events, the events generated high levels of collective distress, and the events were perpetuated by outsiders with a destructive or genocidal intent.
(11) "Indian health care provider" means a health care program operated by the Indian health service or by a tribe, tribal organization, or urban Indian organization as those terms are defined in 25 U.S.C. Sec. 1603.
(12) "Indian health service" means the federal agency within the United States department of health and human services.
(13) "New state savings" means the savings to the state general fund that are achieved as a result of the centers for medicare and medicaid services state health official letter 16-002 and related guidance, calculated as the difference between (a) medicaid payments received from the centers for medicare and medicaid services based on the one hundred percent federal medical assistance percentage; and (b) medicaid payments received from the centers for medicare and medicaid services based on the federal medical assistance percentage that would apply in the absence of state health official letter 16-002 and related guidance.
(14) "Reinvestment account" means the Indian health improvement reinvestment account created in RCW
43.71B.040.
(15) "Reinvestment committee" means the Indian health improvement reinvestment committee established in RCW
43.71B.020(4).
(16) "Tribal data" means data or information that is specific to an individual tribe and includes public or private data or information on or about a tribe or its people subject to tribal rights of ownership and control. Tribal data also includes, but is not limited to, tribal membership, tribal affiliation, events and conditions within the tribe's jurisdiction and lands, information about tribal members and any persons living within the tribe's jurisdiction, tribal census tract, tribal land, and identification of tribal facilities, entities, and enterprises and any individuals they serve.
(17) "Tribal data sovereignty" means the inherent sovereign authority of tribes to manage the collection, ownership, application, and interpretation of its own data.
(18) "Tribal organization" has the meaning set forth in 25 U.S.C. Sec. 5304.
(((17)))(19) "Tribally operated facility" means a health care facility operated by one or more tribes or tribal organizations to provide specialty services, including but not limited to evaluation and treatment services, secure detox services, inpatient psychiatric services, nursing home services, and residential substance use disorder services.
(((18)))(20) "Tribe" means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or group or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native claims settlement act (43 U.S.C. Sec. 1601 et seq.) which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
(((19)))(21) "Urban Indian" means any individual who resides in an urban center and is: (a) A member of a tribe terminated since 1940 and those tribes recognized now or in the future by the state in which they reside, or who is a descendant, in the first or second degree, of any such member; (b) an Eskimo or Aleut or other Alaska Native; (c) considered by the secretary of the interior to be an Indian for any purpose; or (d) considered by the United States secretary of health and human services to be an Indian for purposes of eligibility for Indian health services, including as a California Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, or other Alaska Native.
(((20)))(22) "Urban Indian organization" means an urban Indian organization, as defined by 25 U.S.C. Sec. 1603.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter
43.20 RCW to read as follows:
(1) The state board shall, no later than July 31, 2028, and in accordance with RCW
43.20.050(2)(f), amend rules for the prevention and control of infectious and noninfectious diseases, including food borne and vector-borne illnesses to require the department of health or local health jurisdictions to report notifiable conditions to the tribal health jurisdiction in Washington state where the patient resides, or in the event the patient's residence cannot be determined, the tribal health department in which the patient received treatment in accordance with 45 C.F.R. Sec. 164.512(b)(1)(i) and 45 C.F.R. Sec. 164.501.
(2) Nothing in this section may be read as an assertion of state jurisdiction or regulatory authority over a tribe.
Sec. 4. RCW
43.20.025 and 2019 c 185 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Commissary" means an approved food establishment where food is stored, prepared, portioned, or packaged for service elsewhere.
(2) "Commissions" means the Washington state commission on African American affairs established in chapter
43.113 RCW, the Washington state commission on Asian Pacific American affairs established in chapter
43.117 RCW, the Washington state commission on Hispanic affairs established in chapter
43.115 RCW, and the governor's office of Indian affairs.
(3) "Consumer representative" means any person who is not an elected official, who has no fiduciary obligation to a health facility or other health agency, and who has no material financial interest in the rendering of health services.
(4) "Council" means the governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities, convened according to this chapter.
(5) "Department" means the department of health.
(6) "Health disparities" means the difference in incidence, prevalence, mortality, or burden of disease and other adverse health conditions, including lack of access to proven health care services that exists between specific population groups in Washington state.
(7) "Health impact review" means a review of a legislative or budgetary proposal completed according to the terms of this chapter that determines the extent to which the proposal improves or exacerbates health disparities.
(8) "Local health board" means a health board created pursuant to chapter
70.05, 70.08, or
70.46 RCW.
(9) "Local health officer" means the legally qualified physician appointed as a health officer pursuant to chapter
70.05, 70.08, or
70.46 RCW.
(10) "Mobile food unit" means a readily movable food establishment.
(11) "Regulatory authority" means the local, state, or federal enforcement body or authorized representative having jurisdiction over the food establishment. The local board of health, acting through the local health officer, is the regulatory authority for the activity of a food establishment, except as otherwise provided by law.
(12) "Secretary" means the secretary of health, or the secretary's designee.
(13) "Servicing area" means an operating base location to which a mobile food unit or transportation vehicle returns regularly for such things as vehicle and equipment cleaning, discharging liquid or solid wastes, refilling water tanks and ice bins, and boarding food.
(14) "Social determinants of health" means those elements of social structure most closely shown to affect health and illness, including at a minimum, early learning, education, socioeconomic standing, safe housing, gender, incidence of violence, convenient and affordable access to safe opportunities for physical activity, healthy diet, and appropriate health care services.
(15) "State board" means the state board of health created under this chapter.
(16) "Tribal health jurisdiction" means a tribe as defined under RCW 43.71B.010 or a tribal entity or program operated by a tribe that provides public health services. NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. If specific funding for the purposes of this act, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, is not provided by June 30, 2026, in the omnibus appropriations act, this act is null and void."
• Requires state agencies that are members of GIHAC to develop tribal data policies, by July 31, 2029, that are consistent with the following principles developed by GIHAC: (1) Tribes must have the same or enhanced access to state data as other public health jurisdictions and nongovernmental entities; (2) tribes must possess sovereign authority to manage their data; and (3) when a tribe's data is located in a state dataset, the agency has a government-to-government responsibility to consult and engage with tribes on how the agency uses the data.
• Specifies that an agency is not required to derive tribal membership, tribal affiliation, identification of a tribe, or a tribe's jurisdiction where such information is not collected or reasonably known.
• Removes the public records act exemption.
• Modifies the deadline for the State Board of Health to adopt rules for notifiable condition reporting to tribal health jurisdictions from July 31, 2027, to July 31, 2028.
• Requires the Department of Health or local health jurisdictions to report notifiable conditions to tribal health jurisdictions, rather than requiring health care providers, health care facilities, and laboratories to report to tribal health jurisdictions.
• Modifies the definition of "tribal data sovereignty" to mean "the inherent sovereign authority of a tribe to manage the collection, ownership, application, and interpretation of its own data," rather than listing more detailed principles.