WA People
BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

HB 1051: Emergency care volunteers

Limiting the liability of volunteer providers of emergency or medical services.

Summary

  • Adds health care professionals and health care personnel acting as volunteers to the definition of those immune from civil liability for negligence in providing emergency care.
  • Adds the requirement that a person covered under statute cannot participate in transporting an injured person for expectation of compensation.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 14, 2003
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Toby Nixon (R-45)
Introduced
January 14, 2003 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2004
Companion bill
SB 5820

AN ACT Relating to protecting persons who provide volunteer emergency care;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Toby Nixon (R-45)

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. First reading, referred to Judiciary.

HB 1051 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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