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SB 125                                                                                            
The Health, Education and Social Services Committee considered                                      
SENATE BILL NO. 125 "An Act relating to the licensing, regulation,                                  
enforcement, and appeal rights of ambulatory surgical centers, assisted                             
living homes, child care facilities, child placement agencies, foster                               
homes, free-standing birth centers, home health agencies, hospices or                               
agencies providing hospice services, hospitals, intermediate care                                   
facilities for the mentally retarded, maternity homes, nursing facilities,                          
residential child care facilities, residential psychiatric treatment                                
centers, and rural health clinics; relating to criminal history                                     
requirements, and a registry, regarding certain licenses, certifications,                           
approvals, and authorizations by the Department of Health and Social                                
Services; making conforming amendments; and providing for an                                        
effective date" and recommended it be replaced with                                                 
                                                                                                    
     CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 125(HES) "An Act relating                                               
     to the licensing, regulation, enforcement, and appeal rights                                   
     of ambulatory surgical centers, assisted living homes, child                                   
     care facilities, child placement agencies, foster homes, free-                                 

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     standing birth centers, home health agencies, hospices or                                      
     agencies providing hospice services or operating hospice                                       
     programs, hospitals, intermediate care facilities for the                                      
     mentally retarded, maternity homes, nursing facilities,                                        
     residential child care facilities, residential psychiatric                                     
     treatment centers, runaway shelters, and rural health                                          
     clinics; relating to possession of a firearm at licensed                                       
     entities and facilities; relating to criminal history                                          
     requirements, and a registry, regarding certain licenses,                                      
     certifications, approvals, and authorizations by the                                           
     Department of Health and Social Services; making                                               
     conforming amendments; and providing for an effective                                          
     date."                                                                                         
                                                                                                    
Signing do pass: Senator Dyson, Chair; Senators Wilken, Green.                                      
Signing no recommendation: Senators Elton, Olson.                                                   
                                                                                                    
The following previously published fiscal information applies:                                      
 Fiscal Note No. 1, Department of Law                                                               
 Fiscal Note No. 2, zero, Department of Health and Social Services                                  
                                                                                                    
The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee.