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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 279
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C 166 L 85
State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Haugen, S. Wilson, Ballard, Fisch, Isaacson, Leonard and Day)
Read first time 2/20/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.
AN ACT Relating to public hospital districts; and adding a new section to chapter 70.44 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 70.44 RCW to read as follows:
All meetings, proceedings, and deliberations of the board of commissioners, its staff or agents, concerning the granting, denial, revocation, restriction, or other consideration of the status of the clinical or staff privileges of a physician or other health care provider as that term is defined in RCW 7.70.020, if such other providers at the discretion of the district's commissioners are considered for such privileges, shall be confidential and may be conducted in executive session: PROVIDED, That the final action of the board as to the denial, revocation, or restriction of clinical or staff privileges of a physician or other health care provider as defined in RCW 7.70.020 shall be done in public session.