WSHA is tracking the following high-priority bills. (Companion bills are listed in parentheses.)
| Bill # | Abbrev. Title | Short Description | Position |
| HB 1026 | WA health security trust | Requiring the submission of a waiver to the federal government to create the Washington health security trust. | Oppose |
| HB 1117 (SB 5619) | Health care balance billing | Addressing health care services balance billing. | Oppose |
| HB 1145 (ESSB 5456) | Unpaid accounts | Concerning unpaid accounts. | Support |
| HB 1337 (SB 5221) | Medical licensure compact | Creating the interstate medical licensure compact. | Support |
| 2SHB 1338 (SB 5253) | State health insurance pool | Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool. | Support |
| ESHB 1339 | Opioid drug prescriptions | Providing for restrictions on prescriptions for opioid drugs. | Oppose |
| ESHB 1359 (SB 5231) | Hospital charity care notice | Concerning notice of charity care availability at time of billing and collection. | Neutral |
| SHB 1413 (SSB 5435) | Mental health record discl. | Specifying to whom information and records related to mental health services may be disclosed for the purposes of care coordination and treatment. | Support |
| E2SHB 1426 | Rx monitoring program data | Concerning persons and entities to whom the department of health may provide prescription monitoring program data. | Support |
| SHB 1477 (SB 5400) | Health info. disclosure | Concerning disclosure of health-related information with persons with a close relationship with a patient. | Concerns |
| SHB 1520 | Hospital payment methodology | Allowing alternative payment methodologies for critical access hospitals participating in the Washington rural health access preservation pilot. | Support |
| HB 1546 (SSB 5434) | Comm hospitals/mental health | Concerning the addition of services for long-term placement of mental health patients in community hospitals that voluntarily contract and are certified by the department of social and health services. | Support |
| ESHB 1547 (SB 5446) | Cert. of need/psychiat. beds | Exempting certain hospitals from certificate of need requirements for the addition of psychiatric beds until June 2019. | Support |
| HB 1637 (SSB 5471) | Medicaid reimbursement/PCPs | Concerning the reimbursement rate primary care providers receive to participate in medicaid. | Support |
| HB 1640 (SB 5478) | Advance directives | Allowing notaries and proof of identity for advance directives. | Support |
| SHB 1641 | Homeless youth/health care | Concerning informed consent for nonemergency, outpatient, primary health care services for unaccompanied homeless youth under the federal McKinney-Vento homeless assistance act. | Support |
| ESHB 1714 | Nursing staffing/hospitals | Concerning nursing staffing practices at hospitals. | Support |
| HB 1715 | Health care employees | Addressing meal and rest breaks and mandatory overtime for certain health care employees. | Oppose |
| HB 1766 | Hospital safety net assess. | Concerning the hospital safety net assessment. | Support |
| HB 1810 (ESB 5800) | Duty to warn/mental health | Concerning obligations of mental health professionals. | Support |
| HB 1811 | Health provider changes | Concerning notice of material changes to the operations or governance structure of a health care provider or provider organization. | Oppose |
| SHB 1854 | Skilled nursing transition | Concerning the transition of medicaid enrollees to skilled nursing facility care. | Support |
| HB 1870 (SB 5654) | Out-of-network health care | Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services. | Support |
| 2EHB 2107 | Mental health placements | Concerning the addition of services for long-term placement of mental health patients in community settings that voluntarily contract to provide the services. | Support |
| ESHB 2114 | Out-of-network health srvs | Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health services. | Oppose |
| SHB 2186 | Taxes | Concerning investing in Washington families by improving the fairness of the state’s excise tax system by narrowing or eliminating tax preferences, imposing a business and occupation tax surcharge while eliminating tax liability for small businesses, enacting an excise tax on capital gains, modifying the real estate excise tax, making administrative changes, and implementing marketplace fairness in Washington. | Oppose |
| SSB 5186 | Blood samples/forensic tests | Concerning the collection of blood samples for forensic testing. | Support |
| SB 5221 (HB 1337) | Medical licensure compact | Creating the interstate medical licensure compact. | Support |
| SB 5231 (ESHB 1359) | Hospital charity care notice | Concerning notice of charity care availability at time of billing and collection. | Oppose |
| SSB 5248 | Prescribing opioids | Concerning persons to whom the department of health may provide prescription monitoring program data. | Support |
| SB 5253 (2SHB 1338) | State health insurance pool | Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool. | Support |
| SB 5400 (SHB 1477) | Health info. disclosure | Concerning disclosure of health-related information with persons with a close relationship with a patient. | Concerns |
| SSB 5434 (HB 1546) | Comm hospitals/mental health | Concerning the addition of services for long-term placement of mental health patients in community hospitals that voluntarily contract and are certified by the department of social and health services. | Support |
| SSB 5435 (SHB 1413) | Mental health record discl. | Specifying to whom information and records related to mental health services may be disclosed for the purposes of care coordination and treatment. | Support |
| SB 5436 | Telemedicine locations | Expanding patient access to health services through telemedicine by further defining where a patient may receive the service. | Support |
| SB 5446 (ESHB 1547) | Cert. of need/psychiat. beds | Exempting certain hospitals from certificate of need requirements for the addition of psychiatric beds until June 2019. | Support |
| ESSB 5456 (HB 1145) | Unpaid accounts | Concerning unpaid accounts. | Support |
| SSB 5471 (HB 1637) | Medicaid reimbursement/PCPs | Concerning the reimbursement rate primary care providers receive to participate in medicaid. | Support |
| SB 5478 (HB 1640) | Advance directives | Allowing notaries and proof of identity for advance directives. | Support |
| SB 5579 | Balance billing | Concerning balance billing. | Oppose |
| SB 5581 | Self-insurance risk pools | Authorizing public hospital districts to participate in self-insurance risk pools with nonprofit hospitals. | Support |
| SB 5593 | Postsurgical care | Concerning postsurgical care. | Oppose |
| SB 5619 (HB 1117) | Health care balance billing | Addressing health care services balance billing. | Oppose |
| SB 5654 (HB 1870) | Out-of-network health care | Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services. | Support |
| SB 5767 | Health care provider notices | Concerning notice requirements of health care providers. | Oppose |
| ESB 5800 (HB 1810) | Duty to warn/mental health | Concerning obligations of mental health professionals. | Support |
| SB 5811 | Heroin abuse/invol treatment | Expanding use of the involuntary treatment act to combat heroin abuse. | Concerns |
| SSB 5815 | Hospital safety net assess. | Concerning the hospital safety net assessment. | Support |
