Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.

 H-0816.1

HOUSE BILL 1632

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Representatives Timmons, Taylor, Macri, Fosse, Obras, Kloba, Bernbaum, Ramel, Doglio, Berg, Stonier, Berry, Leavitt, Peterson, Gregerson, Parshley, Reed, Thai, Ormsby, Hill, Mena, Simmons, Cortes, Zahn, Nance, Street, and Salahuddin

Read first time 01/27/25. Referred to Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary.

AN ACT Relating to protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt; amending RCW 19.16.100 , 19.182.040 , 70.41.400 , and 70.54.005 ; reenacting and amending RCW 19.16.250 ; and adding a new section to chapter 70.54 RCW.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 19.16.100 and 2020 c 30 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, the following words and phrases as hereinafter used in this chapter shall have the following meanings: