SBOH Legislative Update

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SBOH Legislative Update

• Washington State Board of Health
• March 12, 2003
• Presented by Craig McLaughlin

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Legislative Calendar

• Jan. 13first day of session
• March 5committees report out in house of origin
  (except fiscal and transportation)
• March 10fiscal and transportation report out
• March 19last day to consider own bills
• April 27end of session

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General themes

• 2.4 billion deficit
• Most bills with new costs not moving
• Long hard look at health care costs
• Re-engineering basic health plan
• Controlling prescription drug costs
• Regulatory reform

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Health themes

• Public health funding
• Benefit redesign (revising Basic Health Plan)
• Tort reform
• Small employer health insurance
• Prescription drugs
• Hepatitis C
• Smoking (secondhand, local preemption)
• Activity and nutrition in schools

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Category 1Statutory Authority and Duties

• HB 1754 Retail food code would not apply to
  poultry farms slaughtering fewer than 1,000/year
• SB 5764 Only water districts or vote of members
  could require fluoridation
• HB 1318/SB 5649 Reference U.S. Food Code
• HB 1638/SB 5029 Authority to write HCV rules
• SB 5060/HB 1412 Staffing of kids EH council
• SB 5085 Repeal water recreation rules
• SB 5313 Require SBOH to define preventive care
• SB 5421/HB1825 Mandate hearing screening in
  statute
• SB 5521 Prenatal screening

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Category 3BoardsPriority Work Areas

• HB 1852 HD (workforce development)
• HB 2015 Access (small employers)
• SB 5059/SB 5929 GTF recommendations
• SB 5060/HB 1412 Childrens health, EH, EJ
• SB 5313 Access menu (health care recovery act)
• SB 5521/HB 1871 Access menu (clinical preventive
  services, mammograms, substance abuse, LTC, other
  mandates for small business)
• SB 5807 Access (BHP redesign)

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Category 4Sense of the Board Document

• SB 5290/HB 2070 Public health financing
• HB 1068/SB 5764 Population-based interventions
  (fluoride)
• SB 5807 Access

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Live issues

• The budget
• Public health funding
• Basic health plan
• Small employer mandates
• Fluoridation

• Nutrition in schools
• Newborn hearing
• U.S. food code
• Mental health parity
• Genetic information