Washington Healthcare Bills

Concerning taxes imposed on insurers operating within the state.

Removing a tax exemption for the warehousing and reselling of prescription drugs. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Removing a tax exemption for the warehousing and reselling of prescription drugs and providing tax relief for critical access pharmacies.)

Increasing transparency and consumer protection in water system rates.

Protecting patient access to discounted medications and health care services through Washington's health care safety net by preventing manufacturer limitations on the 340B drug pricing program.

Strengthening health care market standards.

Establishing a pilot program for posttraumatic stress disorder treatment and research.

Establishing an abortion savings program.

Concerning veterinarian-client-patient relationships.

Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.

Concerning medically tailored meals.

Establishing network adequacy standards for skilled nursing facilities and rehabilitation hospitals.

Concerning the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide.

Expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools.

Concerning personnel for ambulance service interfacility specialty care transports.

Protecting the clinical autonomy of audiologists.

Concerning the department of labor and industries' authority to enact rules related to regulating asbestos training.

Promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases.

Concerning the regulation of nursing.

Protecting patients involved in motor vehicle accidents from delayed ambulance bills.

Updating the role of the Washington traffic safety commission in identifying the risk factors that lead to roadway fatalities.