Committee Schedules

Senate Health & Long Term Care - 2/19/2019 5:30 PM

Full Committee

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Location

Senate Hearing Rm 1
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED 2/19/2019 9:03 AM

Executive Session
  1. SB 5344 - Concerning nursing fatigue.
  2. SB 5446 - Concerning electronic prescriptions.
  3. SB 5526 - Increasing the availability of quality, affordable health coverage in the individual market.
  4. SB 5741 - Making changes to support future operations of the state all payer claims database by transferring the responsibility to the health care authority, partnering with a lead organization with broad data experience, including with self-insured employers, and other changes to improve and ensure successful and sustainable database operations for access to and use of the data to improve health care, providing consumers useful and consistent quality and cost measures, and assess total cost of care in Washington state.
  5. SB 5759 - Increasing opportunities for the use of remote technology in eye exams.
  6. SB 5764 - Changing the name of the medical quality assurance commission to the Washington medical commission.
  7. SB 5805 - Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act.
  8. SB 5817 - Concerning senior students in accredited schools of chiropractic.
  9. SB 5822 - Providing a pathway to establish a universal health care system for the residents of Washington state.
  10. SB 5887 - Concerning health carrier requirements for prior authorization standards.

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