2002-03-15                     Senate Journal                      Page 2429
SB 265                                                                                            
The Labor and Commerce Committee considered SENATE BILL NO.                                         
265 "An Act relating to physician assistants; providing that a                                      
physician assistant is a health care provider covered by certain laws                               
relating to medical malpractice actions; adding physician assistants to                             
the list of providers against whom unfair discrimination relating to                                
health care insurance is prohibited and to the list of providers who can                            
provide proof of disablement or handicap for the purpose of obtaining                               
a special parking permit; and providing for an effective date" and                                  
recommended the adoption of the Transportation Committee                                            
Substitute offered on page 2257.                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Signing do pass: Senator Stevens, Chair, Senators Austerman, Davis,                                 
Leman, Torgerson.                                                                                   
                                                                                                    
The following previously published fiscal information applies:                                      
 Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Department of Community and Economic                                      
  Development                                                                                       
                                                                                                    
The bill was referred to the Rules Committee.