Location

Senate Hearing Rm 4
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 1/17/2019 4:24 PM

Work Session

1. Equity in health care.

Public Hearing

1. SB 5000 - Concerning online access to health care resources for veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
2. SB 5208 - Concerning emergency medical services for animals.

Executive Session

1. SB 5000 - Concerning online access to health care resources for veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
2. SB 5032 - Concerning medicare supplemental insurance policies.
3. SB 5147 - Providing tax relief to females by exempting feminine hygiene products from retail sales and use tax.
4. SB 5206 - Providing a sales and use tax exemption for certain feminine hygiene products.
5. SB 5301 - Providing a sales and use tax exemption for diapers.
6. SB 5048 - Establishing a reentry community safety program for state hospital patients.
7. SB 5431 - Concerning community facilities needed to ensure a continuum of care for behavioral health patients.
8. SB 5432 - Concerning fully implementing behavioral health integration for January 1, 2020, by removing behavioral health organizations from law; clarifying the roles and responsibilities among the health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health, and the roles and responsibilities of behavioral health administrative services organizations and medicaid managed care organizations; and making technical corrections related to the behavioral health system.
9. SB 5444 - Providing timely competency evaluations and restoration services to persons suffering from behavioral health disorders within the framework of the forensic mental health care system consistent with the requirements agreed to in the Trueblood settlement agreement.
10. SB 5057 - Protecting youth from tobacco products and vapor products by increasing the minimum legal age of sale of tobacco and vapor products.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business. Committee meeting documents can be accessed through the committee's website: http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/HLTC/Pages/default.aspx