H-0751.1
HOUSE BILL 1743
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Representatives Simmons, Couture, Street, Kloba, Griffey, Ormsby, Hill, Nance, and Davis
Read first time 01/30/25. Referred to Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary.
AN ACT Relating to enhancing opportunities for community-based providers to provide health care services in carceral settings; adding a new section to chapter 4.92 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 43.70 RCW; and creating new sections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that community-based health care providers are preferred for providing transitional care services to incarcerated individuals preparing for release due to their provision of comprehensive, integrated primary care services, focus on addressing social determinants of health, and continuity of care after release from incarceration.
The legislature further finds that unlike large third-party health care providers, community-based health care providers are generally too small to self-insure and are prevented from providing health care in carceral settings due to the reluctance of private insurers to provide medical malpractice insurance in carceral settings and because federal government insurance coverage does not extend to state carceral settings.