Title 70 — Title 70 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
98 chapters · 1,450 sections in this title.
RCW 70.24.025 Violations of health order—Penalties.
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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…
RCW 70.24.027 Intentional transmission of HIV—Penalties.
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(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 thr…
RCW 70.24.034 Detention—Grounds—Order—Hearing.
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(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 pers…
RCW 70.24.050 Diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases—Confirmation—Anonymous prevalence reports.
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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 sha…
RCW 70.24.070 Detention and treatment facilities.
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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 publi…
RCW 70.24.080 Penalty.
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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 thi…
RCW 70.24.084 Violations of chapter—Aggrieved persons—Right of action.
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(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, fo…
RCW 70.24.090 Pregnant women—Test for syphilis.
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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 …
RCW 70.24.110 Minors—Treatment, consent, liability for payment for care.
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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; an…
RCW 70.24.115 Expedited partner therapy—Conditions—Liability limited—Rules.
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(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 cont…
RCW 70.24.120 Sexually transmitted disease case investigators—Authority to obtain specimens.
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(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 speci…
RCW 70.24.130 Adoption of rules.
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(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 …
RCW 70.24.150 Immunity of certain public employees.
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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…
RCW 70.24.220 Sexually transmitted disease education in public schools—Finding.
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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 locall…
RCW 70.24.290 Public school employees—Rules for blood-borne pathogens education and training.
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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 pathoge…
RCW 70.24.325 Testing—Insurance requirements.
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(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 s…
RCW 70.24.340 Employees' substantial exposure to bodily fluids—Procedure and court orders.
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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 transmissio…
RCW 70.24.360 Jail detainees—Testing of persons who present a possible risk.
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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 …
RCW 70.24.370 Correction facility inmates—Testing—Procedure.
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(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 pre…
RCW 70.24.400 Funding for office on AIDS—Center for AIDS education—Department's duties for awarding grants.
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(1) The secretary of health shall direct that all state or federal funds, excluding those from federal Title XIX for services or other activities authorized in this chapter, shall be allocated to the office on AIDS established in *RCW 70.24.250. The secretary shall further direct…
RCW 70.24.420 Additional local funding of treatment programs not required.
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Nothing in this chapter may be construed to require additional local funding of programs to treat communicable disease established as of March 23, 1988.[ 1988 c 206 s 919.]
RCW 70.24.430 Application of chapter to persons subject to jurisdiction of department of corrections.
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Nothing in this chapter is intended to create a state-mandated liberty interest of any nature for offenders or inmates confined in department of corrections facilities or subject to the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.[ 1988 c 206 s 920.]
RCW 70.24.450 Confidentiality—Reports—Unauthorized disclosures.
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(1) In order to assure compliance with the protections under this chapter and the rules of the board, and to assure public confidence in the confidentiality of reported information, the department shall:(a) Report annually to the board any incidents of unauthorized disclosure by …
RCW 70.24.901 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
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For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to …
RCW 70.26.010 Findings—Intent.
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The legislature finds that:(1) Pandemic influenza is a global outbreak of disease that occurs when a new virus appears in the human population, causes serious illness, and then spreads easily from person to person.(2) Historically, pandemic influenza has occurred on average every…
RCW 70.26.020 Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Department" means the department of health.(2) "Local health jurisdiction" means a local health department as established under chapter 70.05 RCW, a combined city-coun…
RCW 70.26.030 Local preparedness and response plans—Requirements.
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(1) The secretary shall establish requirements and performance standards, consistent with any requirements or standards established by the United States department of health and human services, regarding the development and implementation of local pandemic flu preparedness and re…
RCW 70.26.040 Local preparedness and response plans—Consultation with public, private sector—Department to provide technical assistance and disburse funds.
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(1) Each local health jurisdiction shall develop its pandemic flu preparedness and response plan based on the requirements and performance standards established under RCW 70.26.030(1) and an assessment of the jurisdiction's current capacity to respond to pandemic flu. The plan sh…
RCW 70.26.050 Plans to be submitted to secretary for approval, rejection—Funding—Preparedness and response activities.
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Local health jurisdictions shall submit their pandemic flu preparedness and response plans to the secretary by November 1, 2006. Upon receipt of a plan, the secretary shall approve or reject the plan. When the plan is determined by the department to comply with the requirements a…
RCW 70.26.060 Secretary to develop a formula for fund distribution—Requirements.
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The secretary shall develop a formula for distribution of any federal and state funds appropriated in the omnibus appropriations act on or before July 1, 2006, to local health jurisdictions for development and implementation of their pandemic flu preparedness and response plans. …
RCW 70.26.070 Secretary duties—Report.
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The secretary shall:(1) Develop a process for assessing the compliance of each local health jurisdiction with the requirements and performance standards developed under RCW 70.26.030(1) at least biannually;(2) By November 15, 2008, report to the legislature on the level of compli…
RCW 70.28.005 Health officials, broad powers to protect public health.
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(1) Tuberculosis has been and continues to be a threat to the public's health in the state of Washington.(2) While it is important to respect the rights of individuals, the legitimate public interest in protecting the public health and welfare from the spread of a deadly infectio…
RCW 70.28.008 Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise:(1) "Department" means the department of health;(2) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of health or his or her designee;(3) "Tuberculosis control" refers to …
RCW 70.28.010 Health care providers required to report cases.
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All practicing health care providers in the state are hereby required to report to the local health department cases of every person having tuberculosis who has been attended by, or who has come under the observation of, the health care provider within one day thereof.[ 1999 c 17…
RCW 70.28.020 Record of reports.
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All local health departments in this state are hereby required to receive and keep a record, for a period of ten years from the date of the report, of the reports required by RCW 70.28.010 to be made to them; such records shall not be open to public inspection, but shall be submi…
RCW 70.28.025 Secretary's administrative responsibility—Scope.
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The secretary shall have responsibility for establishing standards for the control, prevention, and treatment of tuberculosis and hospitals approved to treat tuberculosis in the state operated under this chapter and chapter 70.30 RCW and for providing, either directly or through …
RCW 70.28.031 Powers and duties of health officers.
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Each health officer is hereby directed to use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and immediately to investigate, all reported or suspected cases of tuberculosis in the infectious stages within his or her jurisdiction and to ascertain the sources of such infectio…
RCW 70.28.032 Due process standards for testing, treating, detaining—Reporting requirements—Training and scope for skin test administration.
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(1) The state board of health shall adopt rules establishing the requirements for:(a) Reporting confirmed or suspected cases of tuberculosis by health care providers and reporting of laboratory results consistent with tuberculosis by medical test sites;(b) Due process standards f…
RCW 70.28.033 Treatment, isolation, or examination order of health officer—Violation—Penalty.
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Inasmuch as the order provided for by RCW 70.28.031 is for the protection of the public health, any person who, after service upon him or her of an order of a health officer directing his or her treatment, isolation, or examination as provided for in RCW 70.28.031, violates or fa…
RCW 70.28.035 Order of health officer—Refusal to obey—Application for superior court order.
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In addition to the proceedings set forth in RCW 70.28.031, where a local health officer has reasonable cause to believe that an individual has tuberculosis as defined in the rules and regulations of the state board of health, and the individual refuses to obey the order of the lo…
RCW 70.28.037 Superior court order for confinement of individuals having active tuberculosis.
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Where it has been determined after an examination as prescribed in this chapter that an individual has active tuberculosis, upon application to the superior court by the local health officer, the superior court shall order the sheriff to transport the individual to a designated f…
RCW 70.30.015 Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Department" means the department of health.(2) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of health or his or her designee.(3) "Tuberculosis control" refers to …
RCW 70.30.045 Expenditures for tuberculosis control directed—Standards—Payment for treatment.
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Tuberculosis is a communicable disease and tuberculosis prevention, treatment, control, and follow-up of known cases of tuberculosis are the basic steps in the control of this major health problem. In order to carry on such work effectively in accordance with the standards set by…
RCW 70.30.055 County budget for tuberculosis facilities.
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In order to maintain adequate facilities and services for the residents of the state of Washington who are or may be suffering from tuberculosis and to assure their proper care, the legislative authority of each county shall budget annually a sum to provide such services in the c…
RCW 70.30.061 Admissions to facility.
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Any person residing in the state and needing treatment for tuberculosis may apply in person to the local health officer or to any licensed physician, *advanced registered nurse practitioner, or licensed physician assistant for examination and if that health care provider has reas…
RCW 70.30.081 Annual inspections.
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All hospitals established or maintained for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis shall be subject to annual inspection, or more frequently if required by federal law, by agents of the department of health, and the medical director shall admit such agents into ever…
RCW 70.37.010 Declaration of public policies—Purpose.
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The good health of the people of our state is a most important public concern. The state has a direct interest in seeing to it that health care facilities adequate for good public health are established and maintained in sufficient numbers and in proper locations. The rising cost…
RCW 70.37.020 Definitions.
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As used in this chapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings, unless the context indicates or requires another or different meaning or intent and the singular of any term shall encompass the plural and the plural the singular unless the context indicates oth…
RCW 70.37.030 Washington health care facilities authority established—Members—Chair—Terms—Quorum—Vacancies—Compensation and travel expenses.
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There is hereby established a public body corporate and politic, with perpetual corporate succession, to be known as the Washington health care facilities authority. The authority shall constitute a political subdivision of the state established as an instrumentality exercising e…
RCW 70.37.040 Washington health care facilities authority—Powers—Special fund bonds—Revenue bonds.
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(1) The authority is hereby empowered to issue bonds for the construction, purchase, acquisition, rental, leasing or use by participants of projects for which bonds to provide funds therefor have been approved by the authority. Such bonds shall be issued in the name of the author…