Creating an advisory council on rare diseases.

 H-0861.1

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1238

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By House Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Low and Davis)

READ FIRST TIME 01/28/25.

AN ACT Relating to creating an advisory council on rare diseases; adding new sections to chapter 43.70 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that:

(1) Rare diseases are those that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. There are over 7,000 rare diseases affecting approximately 30,000,000 Americans and 50 percent of those are children;