1. The state of Washington approved a state wide Falls Prevention budget
2. 1103. This was the bill we were lobbying for at Rally Day 2008. It is a 5 yr pilot project that has granted the nursing and medical commission authority for their own professions. This bill will:
- Allow the commissions to hire their own staff and manage their own budget
- Allow the commissions to discipline individuals in their own profession for misconduct
- Promote similar sanctions across the profession for misconduct
- Allow the boards to petition to use money from the budget for discipline cases taken to court.
- Chiropractic and Dentists declined to participate in pilot project.
3. PTA licensure passed. Newly graduating PTAs will now have to take a certification exam.
- PTAs will be required to obtain 40 ceu every two years (Same at PTs)
- Grandfather clause for currently practicing PTAs
4. RALLY DAY 2009 is now set. MARK YOUR CALENDERS!
- January 2nd, in Olympia
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