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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 469

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                                                                            C 131 L 85

State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Social & Health Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Lux, Lewis, Leonard, Armstrong, Hine, Barrett and Unsoeld)

Read first time 3/4/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to naturopathic medicine; and amending RCW 18.36.010.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 13, chapter 36, Laws of 1919 and RCW 18.36.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          The term "drugless therapeutics," as used in RCW 18.36.010 through 18.36.165 consists of hydrotherapy, dietetics, electrotherapy, radiography, sanitation, suggestion, mechanical and manual manipulation for the stimulation of physiological and psychological action to establish a normal condition of mind and body, including the use of severance and penetration of the skin for purposes only of withdrawing blood samples for diagnostic purposes (venipuncture), but shall in no way include the giving, prescribing, or recommending of pharmaceutic drugs and poisons for internal use, the purpose of RCW 18.36.010 through 18.36.165 being to confine practitioners ((hereunder)) under this chapter to drugless therapeutics.  The legislative budget committee shall specifically study the appropriateness of venipuncture within this definition pursuant to the sunset review process provided for in chapter 43.131 RCW.

          The words "certificate" and "license" shall be ((known as)) interchangeable terms in this chapter, but nothing in this section affects the definitions of these terms in chapter 18.120 RCW.

                                                                                                                          Passed the House March 19, 1985.

                                                                                                                                         Speaker of the House.

                                                                                                                           Passed the Senate April 12, 1985.

                                                                                                                                       President of the Senate.