Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.

 H-1155.1

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1123

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By House Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Macri, Berry, Reed, Fitzgibbon, Alvarado, Callan, Obras, Farivar, Doglio, Simmons, Wylie, Nance, Berg, Ormsby, Lekanoff, Reeves, and Hill; by request of Health Care Authority)

READ FIRST TIME 02/10/25.

AN ACT Relating to ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services; and adding a new section to chapter 41.05 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 41.05 RCW to read as follows:

(1) For purposes of this section, "contractor" means a health carrier that provides medical insurance offered to public employees and their covered dependents under this chapter, or a third-party administrator contracted by the authority to provide medical coverage to public employees under this chapter.