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70.05.080 | Local health officer—Failure to appoint—Procedure. | If the local board of health or other official responsible for appointing a local health officer under RCW 70.05.050 refuses or neglects to appoint a local health officer after a vacancy exists, the secretary of health may appoint a local health officer and fix the compensation. The local health officer so appointed sh... |
70.05.090 | Physicians to report diseases. | Whenever any physician shall attend any person sick with any dangerous contagious or infectious disease, or with any diseases required by the state board of health to be reported, he or she shall, within twenty-four hours, give notice thereof to the local health officer within whose jurisdiction such sick person may th... |
70.05.100 | Determination of character of disease. | In case of the question arising as to whether or not any person is affected or is sick with a dangerous, contagious or infectious disease, the opinion of the local health officer shall prevail until the state department of health can be notified, and then the opinion of the executive officer of the state department of ... |
70.05.110 | Local health officials and physicians to report contagious diseases. | It shall be the duty of the local board of health, health authorities or officials, and of physicians in localities where there are no local health authorities or officials, to report to the state board of health, promptly upon discovery thereof, the existence of any one of the following diseases which may come under t... |
70.05.120 | Violations—Remedies—Penalties. | (1) Any local health officer or administrative officer appointed under RCW 70.05.040 , if any, who shall refuse or neglect to obey or enforce the provisions of chapters 70.05 , 70.24, and 70.46 RCW or the rules, regulations or orders of the state board of health or who shall refuse or neglect to make prompt and accurat... |
70.05.130 | Expenses of state, health district, or county in enforcing health laws and rules—Payment by county. | All expenses incurred by the state, health district, or county in carrying out the provisions of chapters 70.05 and 70.46 RCW or any other public health law, or the rules of the department of health enacted under such laws, shall be paid by the county and such expenses shall constitute a claim against the general fund ... |
70.05.150 | Contracts for sale or purchase of health services authorized. | In addition to powers already granted them, any county, district, or local health department may contract for either the sale or purchase of any or all health services from any local health department.
[ 2011 c 27 s 4 ; 1993 c 492 s 243 ; 1967 ex.s. c 51 s 22 .]
Findings — Intent — 1993 c 492: See notes following RCW 4... |
70.05.160 | Moratorium on water, sewer hookups, or septic systems—Public hearing—Limitation on length. | A local board of health that adopts a moratorium affecting water hookups, sewer hookups, or septic systems without holding a public hearing on the proposed moratorium, shall hold a public hearing on the adopted moratorium within at least sixty days of its adoption. If the board does not adopt findings of fact justifyin... |
70.05.170 | Child fatality review. | (1)(a) The legislature finds that the mortality rate in Washington state among infants and children less than 19 years of age is unacceptably high, and that such mortality may be preventable. The legislature further finds that, through the performance of child fatality reviews, preventable causes of child mortality can... |
70.05.180 | Infectious disease testing—Good samaritans—Rules. | A person rendering emergency care or transportation, commonly known as a "Good Samaritan," as described in RCW 4.24.300 and 4.24.310 , may request and receive appropriate infectious disease testing free of charge from the local health department of the county of her or his residence, if: (1) While rendering emergency c... |
70.05.190 | On-site sewage program management plans—Authority of certain boards of health. | (1) A local board of health in the twelve counties bordering Puget Sound implementing an on-site sewage program management plan may: (a) Impose and collect reasonable rates or charges in an amount sufficient to pay for the actual costs of administration and operation of the on-site sewage program management plan; and (... |
70.05.200 | On-site sewage system self-inspection. | Nothing in this chapter prohibits a county from relying on self-inspection of on-site sewage systems consistent with RCW 36.70A.690 or eliminates the requirement that counties protect water quality consistent with RCW 36.70A.070 (1) and (5).
[ 2017 c 105 s 3 .] |
70.05.210 | Fatality review teams. | (1) The legislature finds that the mortality rate in Washington state due to overdose, withdrawal related to substance abuse such as opiates, benzodiazepines, and alcohol, and suicide is unacceptably high and that such mortality may be preventable. The legislature further finds that, through the performance of overdose... |
70.08.005 | Transfer of duties to the department of health. | The powers and duties of the secretary of social and health services under this chapter shall be performed by the secretary of health.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 244 .]
Effective date — Severability — 1989 1st ex.s. c 9: See RCW 43.70.910 and 43.70.920 . |
70.08.010 | Combined city-county health departments—Establishment. | Any city with one hundred thousand or more population and the county in which it is located, are authorized, as shall be agreed upon between the respective governing bodies of such city and said county, to establish and operate a combined city and county health department, and to appoint the director of public health.
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70.08.020 | Director of public health—Powers and duties. | The director of public health is authorized to and shall exercise all powers and perform all duties by law vested in the local health officer.
[ 1985 c 124 s 2 ; 1949 c 46 s 2 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 6099-31.] |
70.08.030 | Qualifications. | Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in any city or county charter, the director of public health, under this chapter shall meet as a minimum one of the following standards of educational achievement and vocational experience to be qualified for appointment to the office: (1) Bachelor's degree in bu... |
70.08.040 | Director of public health—Appointment. | Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in any city or county charter, where a combined department is established under this chapter, the director of public health under this chapter shall be appointed by the county executive of the county and the mayor of the city. The appointment shall be effective o... |
70.08.050 | May act as health officer for other cities or towns. | Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the director of public health as provided herein from acting as health officer for any other city or town within the county, nor from acting as health officer in any adjoining county or any city or town within such county having a contract or agreement as provided in RCW 70.08.090... |
70.08.060 | Director of public health shall be registrar of vital statistics. | The director of public health under this chapter shall be registrar of vital statistics for all cities and counties under his or her jurisdiction and shall conduct such vital statistics work in accordance with the same laws and/or rules and regulations pertaining to vital statistics for a city of the first class.
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70.08.070 | Employees may be included in civil service or retirement plans of city, county, or combined department. | Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in any city or county charter, and to the extent provided by the city and the county pursuant to appropriate legislative enactment, employees of the combined city and county health department may be included in the personnel system or civil service and retirement... |
70.08.080 | Pooling of funds. | The city by ordinance, and the county by appropriate legislative enactment, under this chapter may pool all or any part of their respective funds available for public health purposes, in the office of the city treasurer or the office of the county treasurer in a special pooling fund to be established in accordance with... |
70.08.090 | Other cities or agencies may contract for services. | Any other city in said county, other governmental agency or any charitable or health agency may by contract or by agreement with the governing bodies of the combined health department receive public health services.
[ 1949 c 46 s 7 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 6099-36.] |
70.08.100 | Termination of agreement to operate combined city-county health department. | Agreement to operate a combined city and county health department made under this chapter may after two years from the date of such agreement, be terminated by either party at the end of any calendar year upon notice in writing given at least six months prior thereto. The termination of such agreement shall not relieve... |
70.08.110 | Prior expenditures in operating combined health department ratified. | Any expenditures heretofore made by a city of one hundred thousand population or more, and by the county in which it is located, not made fraudulently and which were within the legal limits of indebtedness, towards the expense of maintenance and operation of a combined health department, are hereby legalized and ratifi... |
70.10.010 | Declaration of policy—Combining health services—State authorized to cooperate with other entities in constructing. | It is declared to be the policy of the legislature of the state of Washington that, wherever feasible, community health services and services for persons with mental illness or intellectual disabilities shall be combined within single facilities in order to provide maximum utilization of available funds and personnel, ... |
70.10.020 | "Comprehensive community health center" defined. | The term "comprehensive community health center" as used in this chapter shall mean a health facility housing community health, mental health, and developmental disabilities services.
[ 1977 ex.s. c 80 s 37 ; 1967 ex.s. c 4 s 2 .]
Purpose — Intent — Severability — 1977 ex.s. c 80: See notes following RCW 4.16.190 . |
70.10.030 | Authorization to apply for and administer federal or state funds. | The several agencies of the state authorized to administer within the state the various federal acts providing federal moneys to assist in the cost of establishing facilities for community health and mental health and facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities, are authorized to apply for and disburse federa... |
70.10.040 | Application for federal or state funds for construction of facility as part of or separate from health center—Processing and approval by administering agencies—Decision on use as part of comprehensive health center. | Any application for federal or state funds to be used for construction of the community health, mental health, or developmental disabilities facility, which will be part of the comprehensive community health center as defined in RCW 70.10.020 , shall be separately processed and approved by the state agency which has be... |
70.10.050 | Application for federal or state funds for construction of facility as part of or separate from health center—Cooperation between agencies in standardizing application procedures and forms. | The several state agencies processing applications for the construction of comprehensive health centers for community health, mental health, or developmental disability facilities shall cooperate to develop general procedures to be used in implementing the statute and to attempt to develop application forms and procedu... |
70.10.060 | Adoption of rules and regulations—Liberal construction of chapter. | In furtherance of the legislative policy to authorize the state to cooperate with the federal government in facilitating the construction of comprehensive community health centers, the state agencies involved shall adopt such rules and regulations as may become necessary to entitle the state and local units of governme... |
70.12.015 | Secretary may expend funds in counties. | The secretary of health is hereby authorized to apportion and expend such sums as he or she shall deem necessary for public health work in the counties of the state, from the appropriations made to the state department of health for county public health work.
[ 1991 c 3 s 315 ; 1979 c 141 s 86 ; 1939 c 191 s 2 ; RRS s ... |
70.12.025 | County funds for public health. | Each county legislative authority shall annually budget and appropriate a sum for public health work.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 291 s 2 .]
Effective dates — Severability — 1975 1st ex.s. c 291: See notes following RCW 82.04.050 . |
70.12.030 | Public health pooling fund. | Any county, combined city-county health department, or health district is hereby authorized and empowered to create a "public health pooling fund", hereafter called the "fund", for the efficient management and control of all moneys coming to such county, combined department, or district for public health purposes.
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70.12.040 | Fund, how maintained and disbursed. | Any such fund may be established in the county treasurer's office or the city treasurer's office of a first-class city according to the type of local health department organization existing. In a district composed of more than one county, the county treasurer of the county having the largest population shall be the cus... |
70.12.050 | Expenditures from fund. | All expenditures in connection with salaries, wages and operations incurred in carrying on the health department of the county, combined city-county health department, or health district shall be paid out of such fund.
[ 1993 c 492 s 246 ; 1945 c 46 s 3 ; 1943 c 190 s 3 ; Rem. Supp. 1945 s 6099-3.]
Findings — Intent — ... |
70.12.060 | Expenditures geared to budget. | Any fund established as herein provided shall be expended so as to make the expenditures thereof agree with any respective appropriation period. Any accumulation in any such fund so established shall be taken into consideration when preparing any budget for the operations for the ensuing year.
[ 1943 c 190 s 4 ; Rem. S... |
70.12.070 | Fund subject to audit and check by state. | The public health pool fund shall be subject to audit by the state auditor and shall be subject to check by the state department of health.
[ 1995 c 301 s 77 ; 1991 c 3 s 316 ; 1979 c 141 s 87 ; 1943 c 190 s 5 ; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 6099-5.] |
70.14.020 | State agencies to identify alternative health care providers. | Each of the agencies listed in *RCW 70.14.010 , with the exception of the department of labor and industries, which expends more than five hundred thousand dollars annually of state funds for purchase of health care shall identify the availability and costs of nonfee for service providers of health care, including pref... |
70.14.030 | Health care utilization review procedures. | Plans for establishing or improving utilization review procedures for purchased health care services shall be developed by each agency listed in *RCW 70.14.010 . The plans shall specifically address such utilization review procedures as prior authorization of services, hospital inpatient length of stay review, requirem... |
70.14.040 | Review of prospective rate setting methods. | The state agencies listed in *RCW 70.14.010 shall review the feasibility of establishing prospective payment approaches within their health care programs. Work plans or timetables shall be prepared for the development of prospective rates. The agencies shall identify legislative actions that may be necessary to facilit... |
70.14.050 | Drug purchasing cost controls—Establishment of evidence-based prescription drug program. | (1) Each agency administering a state purchased health care program as defined in RCW 41.05.011 shall, in cooperation with other agencies, take any necessary actions to control costs without reducing the quality of care when reimbursing for or purchasing drugs. To accomplish this purpose, participating agencies may est... |
70.14.060 | Prescription drug purchasing consortium—Participation—Exceptions—Rules. | (1)(a) The director of the state health care authority shall, directly or by contract, adopt policies necessary for establishment of a prescription drug purchasing consortium. The consortium's purchasing activities shall be based upon the evidence-based prescription drug program established under RCW 70.14.050 . Except... |
70.14.065 | Generic prescription drug partnership agreements. | (1)(a) The authority may enter into partnership agreements with another state, a group of states, a state agency, a nonprofit organization, or any other entity to produce, distribute, or purchase generic prescription drugs and distribute and purchase insulin. Partnership agreements with governmental entities are exempt... |
70.14.070 | Prescription drug consortium account. | The prescription drug consortium account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from activities related to administration of the state drug purchasing consortium on behalf of participating individuals and organizations, other than state purchased health care programs, shall be deposited into the... |
70.14.080 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 70.14.090 through 70.14.130 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Administrator" means the administrator of the Washington state health care authority under chapter 41.05 RCW. (2) "Advisory group" means a group established under RCW 70.14.110 (2)(c). (3... |
70.14.090 | Health technology clinical committee. | (1) A health technology clinical committee is established, to include the following eleven members appointed by the administrator in consultation with participating state agencies: (a) Six practicing physicians licensed under chapter 18.57 or 18.71 RCW; and (b) Five other practicing licensed health professionals who us... |
70.14.100 | Health technology selection and assessment. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5915.SL ) ***
(1) The administrator, in consultation with participating agencies and the committee, shall select the health technologies to be reviewed by the committee under RCW 70.14.110 . Up to six may be selected for review in the first year after June 7, 2006, and up to eight may be sel... |
70.14.110 | Health technology clinical committee determinations. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5915.SL ) ***
(1) The committee shall determine, for each health technology selected for review under RCW 70.14.100 : (a) The conditions, if any, under which the health technology will be included as a covered benefit in health care programs of participating agencies; and (b) if covered, the... |
70.14.120 | Agency compliance with committee determination—Coverage and reimbursement determinations for nonreviewed health technologies—Appeals. | (1) A participating agency shall comply with a determination of the committee under RCW 70.14.110 unless: (a) The determination conflicts with an applicable federal statute or regulation, or applicable state statute; or (b) Reimbursement is provided under an agency policy regarding experimental or investigational treat... |
70.14.130 | Health technology clinical committee—Public notice. | (1) The administrator shall develop a centralized, internet-based communication tool that provides, at a minimum: (a) Notification when a health technology is selected for review under RCW 70.14.100 , indicating when the review will be initiated and how an interested party may submit evidence, or provide public comment... |
70.14.140 | Applicability to health care services purchased from health carriers. | RCW 70.14.080 through 70.14.130 and 41.05.013 do not apply to state purchased health care services that are purchased from or through health carriers as defined in RCW 48.43.005 .
[ 2006 c 307 s 9 .]
Captions not law — Conflict with federal requirements — 2006 c 307: See notes following RCW 70.14.080 . |
70.14.150 | Data-sharing agreements—Report. | (1) The department of social and health services and the health care authority shall enter into data-sharing agreements with the appropriate agencies in the states of Oregon and Idaho to assure the valid Washington state residence of applicants for health care services in Washington. Such agreements shall include appro... |
70.14.155 | Streamlined health care administration—Agency participation. | The following state agencies are directed to cooperate with the insurance commissioner and, within funds appropriated specifically for this purpose, adopt the processes, guidelines, and standards to streamline health care administration pursuant to chapter 48.165 RCW: The department of social and health services, the h... |
70.14.165 | Total cost of insulin work group—Authority implementation. | (1) In order to implement strategies recommended by the total cost of insulin work group established in *RCW 70.14.160 , the health care authority may: (a) Become or designate a state agency that shall become a drug wholesaler licensed under RCW 18.64.046 ; (b) Become or designate a state agency that shall become a pha... |
70.14.170 | Opioid overdose reversal medications—Bulk purchasing and distribution—Rules—Report—Recommendation to legislature. | (1) As soon as reasonably practicable, the health care authority shall establish a bulk purchasing and distribution program for opioid overdose reversal medication. The health care authority is authorized to: (a) Purchase or enter into contracts as necessary to purchase and distribute opioid overdose reversal medicatio... |
70.14.175 | Opioid overdose reversal medication account. | The opioid overdose reversal medication account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from collections under RCW 70.14.170 must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only for the operation and administration of the opioid overdose reversal medication bulk purc... |
70.15.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Department" means the department of health. (2) "Disaster relief organization" means an entity that provides emergency or disaster relief services that include health or veterinary services provided by volu... |
70.15.020 | Applicability to volunteer health practitioners. | This chapter applies to volunteer health practitioners registered with a registration system that complies with RCW 70.15.040 and who provide health or veterinary services in this state for a host entity while an emergency declaration is in effect.
[ 2018 c 184 s 3 .] |
70.15.030 | Regulation of services during emergency by department—Orders—Host entity duties. | (1) While an emergency declaration is in effect, the department may limit, restrict, or otherwise regulate: (a) The duration of practice by volunteer health practitioners; (b) The geographical areas in which volunteer health practitioners may practice; (c) The types of volunteer health practitioners who may practice; a... |
70.15.040 | Volunteer health practitioner registration systems—Requirements. | (1) To qualify as a volunteer health practitioner registration system, a system must: (a) Accept applications for the registration of volunteer health practitioners before or during an emergency; (b) Include information about the licensure and good standing of health practitioners which is accessible by authorized pers... |
70.15.050 | Recognition of volunteer health practitioners licensed in other states. | (1) While an emergency declaration is in effect, a volunteer health practitioner, registered with a registration system that complies with RCW 70.15.040 and licensed and in good standing in the state upon which the practitioner's registration is based, may practice in this state to the extent authorized by this chapter... |
70.15.060 | No effect on health facility credentialing and privileging standards. | (1) As used in this section: (a) "Credentialing" means obtaining, verifying, and assessing the qualifications of a health practitioner to provide treatment, care, or services in or for a health facility. (b) "Privileging" means the authorizing by an appropriate authority, such as a governing body, of a health practitio... |
70.15.070 | Provision of volunteer health or veterinary services—Scope of practice—Modifications or restrictions—Unauthorized practice—Administrative sanctions. | (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, a volunteer health practitioner shall adhere to the scope of practice for a similarly licensed practitioner established by the licensing provisions, practice acts, or other laws of this state. (2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section, thi... |
70.15.080 | Relation to other laws—Emergency management assistance compact—Pacific Northwest emergency management arrangement. | (1) This chapter does not limit rights, privileges, or immunities provided to volunteer health practitioners by laws other than this chapter. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, this chapter does not affect requirements for the use of health practitioners pursuant to the emergency management... |
70.15.090 | Rules—Consultation with state military department and other agencies. | The department may promulgate rules to implement this chapter. In doing so, the department shall consult with and consider the recommendations of the state military department as the agency established to carry out the state's program for emergency management, and coordinate the implementation of the emergency manageme... |
70.15.100 | Volunteer health practitioners—Workers' compensation coverage—Rules. | (1) A volunteer health practitioner who dies or is injured as the result of providing health or veterinary services pursuant to this chapter is deemed to be an employee of this state for the purpose of receiving benefits for the death or injury under the workers' compensation law of this state, Title 51 RCW, if: (a) Th... |
70.15.110 | Liability—Volunteer health practitioners—Operation, use, reliance upon volunteer health practitioner registration system. | (1) No act or omission, except those acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct, by a volunteer health practitioner registered and providing services within the provisions of this chapter shall impose any liability for civil damages resulting from such an act or omission upon: (a) T... |
70.15.900 | Short title. | This chapter may be known and cited as the uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act.
[ 2018 c 184 s 1 .] |
70.15.901 | Uniformity of application and construction. | In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
[ 2018 c 184 s 13 .] |
70.22.010 | Declaration of purpose. | The purpose of this chapter is to establish a statewide program for the control or elimination of mosquitoes as a health hazard.
[ 1961 c 283 s 1 .]
Mosquito control districts: Chapter 17.28 RCW. |
70.22.020 | Secretary may make inspections, investigations, and determinations and provide for control. | The secretary of health is hereby authorized and empowered to make or cause to be made such inspections, investigations, studies and determinations as he or she may from time to time deem advisable in order to ascertain the effect of mosquitoes as a health hazard, and, to the extent to which funds are available, to pro... |
70.22.030 | Secretary to coordinate plans. | The secretary of health shall coordinate plans for mosquito control work which may be projected by any county, city or town, municipal corporation, taxing district, state department or agency, federal government agency, or any person, group or organization, and arrange for cooperation between any such districts, depart... |
70.22.040 | Secretary may contract with, receive funds from entities and individuals—Authorization for governmental entities to contract, grant funds, levy taxes. | The secretary of health is authorized and empowered to receive funds from any county, city or town, municipal corporation, taxing district, the federal government, or any person, group or organization to carry out the purpose of this chapter. In connection therewith the secretary is authorized and empowered to contract... |
70.22.050 | Powers and duties of secretary. | To carry out the purpose of this chapter, the secretary of health may: (1) Abate as nuisances breeding places for mosquitoes as defined in RCW 17.28.170 ; (2) Acquire by gift, devise, bequest, lease, or purchase, real and personal property necessary or convenient for carrying out the purpose of this chapter; (3) Make c... |
70.22.060 | Governmental entities to cooperate with secretary. | Each state department, agency, and political subdivision shall cooperate with the secretary of health in carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
[ 1991 c 3 s 321 ; 1979 c 141 s 92 ; 1961 c 283 s 6 .] |
70.24.005 | Transfer of duties to the department of health. | The powers and duties of the department of social and health services, the department of licensing, and the secretary of social and health services under this chapter shall be performed by the department of health and the secretary of health.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 247 .]
Effective date — Severability — 1989 1st ex.s. ... |
70.24.015 | Legislative finding. | The legislature declares that sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne pathogens constitute a serious and sometimes fatal threat to the public and individual health and welfare of the people of the state. The legislature finds that the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne pathogens is rising ... |
70.24.017 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter: (1) "Blood-borne pathogen" means a pathogenic microorganism that is present in human blood and can cause disease in humans, including hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and human immunodeficiency virus, as w... |
70.24.022 | Interviews, examination, counseling, or treatment of infected persons or persons believed to be infected—Dissemination of false information—Penalty. | (1) The board shall adopt rules authorizing interviews and the state and local public health officers and their authorized representatives may interview, or cause to be interviewed, all persons infected with a sexually transmitted disease and all persons who, in accordance with standards adopted by the board by rule, a... |
70.24.024 | Orders for examinations and counseling—Investigation—Issuance of health order—Notice and hearing—Exception. | (1) Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the state and local health officers or their authorized representatives may examine and counsel persons reasonably believed to be infected with or to have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease. (2)(a) The state or a local health officer may conduct an investigatio... |
70.24.025 | Violations of health order—Penalties. | A person who violates or fails to comply with a health order issued under RCW 70.24.024 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable by confinement until the order has been complied with or terminated, up to a maximum period of three hundred sixty-four days. In lieu of confinement, the court may place the defendant on p... |
70.24.027 | Intentional transmission of HIV—Penalties. | (1) It is unlawful for a person who knows that he or she has HIV to have sexual intercourse if: (a) The person has been counseled by a health care provider or public health professional regarding the risk of transmitting HIV to others; (b) The partner or partners exposed to HIV through sexual intercourse did not know t... |
70.24.034 | Detention—Grounds—Order—Hearing. | (1) When the procedures of RCW 70.24.024 have been exhausted and the state or local public health officer, within his or her respective jurisdiction, knows or has reason to believe, because of medical information, that a person has a sexually transmitted disease and that the person continues to engage in behaviors that... |
70.24.050 | Diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases—Confirmation—Anonymous prevalence reports. | Diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease in every instance must be confirmed by laboratory tests or examinations in a laboratory approved or conducted in accordance with procedures and such other requirements as may be established by the board. Laboratories testing for HIV shall report anonymous HIV prevalence resul... |
70.24.070 | Detention and treatment facilities. | For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the board shall have the power and authority to designate facilities for the detention and treatment of persons found to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease and to designate any such facility in any hospital or other public or private institution, other than a j... |
70.24.080 | Penalty. | Except as provided in RCW 70.24.025 and 70.24.027 , any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted by the board under this chapter, or who fails or refuses to obey any lawful order issued by any state, county or municipal health officer under this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a g... |
70.24.084 | Violations of chapter—Aggrieved persons—Right of action. | (1) Any person aggrieved by a violation of this chapter shall have a right of action in superior court and may recover for each violation: (a) Against any person who negligently violates a provision of this chapter, one thousand dollars, or actual damages, whichever is greater, for each violation. (b) Against any perso... |
70.24.090 | Pregnant women—Test for syphilis. | Every physician attending a pregnant woman in the state of Washington during gestation shall, in the case of each woman so attended, take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman at the time of first examination, and submit such sample to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis. ... |
70.24.110 | Minors—Treatment, consent, liability for payment for care. | A minor fourteen years of age or older who may have come in contact with any sexually transmitted disease or suspected sexually transmitted disease may give consent to the furnishing of hospital, medical, and surgical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of such disease; and treatment to avoid HIV infection. Such... |
70.24.115 | Expedited partner therapy—Conditions—Liability limited—Rules.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a health care provider who diagnoses a case of sexually transmitted chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, or other sexually transmitted infection, as determined by the department or recommended in the most recent federal centers for disease control and prevention guidelines for the pr... |
70.24.120 | Sexually transmitted disease case investigators—Authority to obtain specimens. | (1) Disease case investigators, upon specific authorization from a physician or by a physician's standing order, are hereby authorized to gather specimens, including through performance of venipuncture or fingerstick puncture, from a person for the sole purpose of obtaining specimens for use in testing for sexually tra... |
70.24.130 | Adoption of rules. | (1) The board shall adopt such rules as are necessary to implement and enforce this chapter, including, but not limited to, rules: (a) Establishing procedures for taking appropriate action, in addition to any other penalty under this chapter, with regard to health care facilities or health care providers that violate t... |
70.24.150 | Immunity of certain public employees. | Members of the state board of health and local boards of health, public health officers, and employees of the department of health and local health departments are immune from civil action for damages arising out of the good faith performance of their duties as prescribed by this chapter, unless such performance consti... |
70.24.220 | Sexually transmitted disease education in public schools—Finding. | The legislature finds that the public schools provide a unique and appropriate setting for educating young people about the pathology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. The legislature recognizes that schools and communities vary throughout the state and that locally elected school directors should have a... |
70.24.290 | Public school employees—Rules for blood-borne pathogens education and training. | The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules that require appropriate education and training, to be included as part of their present continuing education requirements, for public school employees on the prevention, transmission, and treatment of blood-borne pathogens. The superintendent of public instruc... |
70.24.325 | Testing—Insurance requirements. | (1) This section shall apply to consent for blood-borne pathogen testing administered as part of an application for coverage authorized under Title 48 RCW. (2) Persons subject to regulation under Title 48 RCW who are requesting an insured, a subscriber, or a potential insured or subscriber to furnish the results of a b... |
70.24.340 | Employees' substantial exposure to bodily fluids—Procedure and court orders. | A law enforcement officer, firefighter, health care provider, health care facility staff person, department of corrections' staff person, jail staff person, or person employed in other categories of employment to be at risk of exposure that presents a possible risk of transmission of a blood-borne pathogen, who has exp... |
70.24.360 | Jail detainees—Testing of persons who present a possible risk. | Jail administrators, with the approval of the local health officer, may order blood-borne pathogen testing for a person detained in the jail if the local health officer determines that the detainee's behavior exposed the staff, general public, or other persons, and that exposure presents a possible risk of transmitting... |
70.24.370 | Correction facility inmates—Testing—Procedure. | (1) The chief medical officer of the department of corrections may order blood-borne pathogen testing for an inmate if the chief medical officer or his or her designee determines that the inmate's behavior exposed the staff, general public, or other inmates, and that exposure presents a possible risk of transmitting a ... |
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