ARNPs United of Washington State
10024 SE 240th Street, Suite 230, Kent, WA 98031
 Phone: 253.480.1035   Fax: 253.852.7725
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Handicapped Parking Bill Passed!


"This bill allows ARNPS to make determinations about whether an individual meets the
statutory criteria to qualify for special parking privileges."
 Governor Gary Locke, May 2003

2003 Legislative Wrap Up

Labor and Industries
HB1691 - Bill passed out of the house and died in the Senate. This became a controversial bill after being amended.

Cross Border Prescriptions
SB 5675 - Bill died in the Senate.

Handicapped Parking
HB 1655 - Made it through the House 94-0 and the Senate 45-0 and was signed into law by Governor Locke. This bill reinforces the Washington Administrative Code that already allows ARNPs to sign for handicapped parking permits.

2003 Legislative Agenda

Labor and Industries
HB 1691 - AUWS supports this bill, identical to SSB 5797. This bill will allow nurse practitioners to sign the Accident Report Form and the Time Loss Form. This is not an expansion of practice issue as ARNPs have been able to provide all of the care for L & I patients as well as bill for their services. This simply resolves an administrative problem by allowing ARNPs to sign the forms for care they can already provide.

Cross Border Prescriptions
SB 5675 - This bill resolves a problem that Nurse Practitioners from other states have when their patients try to have their prescriptions filled in Washington State. The correction will be made to RCW 69.41.030. This bill is of particular importance to bordering states and mail-in pharmacies. This change simply ads ARNPs to the list of prescribers whose out-of-state prescriptions can be filled by pharmacists.

Handicapped Parking

HB 1655 and SB 5460 - These bills reinforce the current WAC allowing ARNPs to sign handicapped parking permits by adding them to the current list of those approved to sign handicapped parking permits in RCW 46.16.381.

Monitoring
AUWS will continue to monitor bills that can affect Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner practice with an emphasis on: