S-3465.2
SENATE BILL 6152
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2026 Regular Session
By Senators Harris, Chapman, Conway, Frame, Hasegawa, Orwall, Saldaña, Stanford, and Warnick
Read first time 01/15/26. Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.
AN ACT Relating to including physical and occupational therapists as attending providers for workers' compensation; amending RCW 51.08.200 , 51.28.010 , 51.28.010 , 51.28.020 , 51.28.020 , 51.36.010 , and 51.36.010 ; providing an effective date; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 51.08.200 and 2023 c 171 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
"Attending provider" means a person who is a member of the health care provider network established under RCW 51.36.010 , is treating injured workers within the person's scope of practice, and is licensed under Title 18 RCW in one of the following professions: Physicians, chapter 18.71 RCW; osteopathy, chapter 18.57 RCW; chiropractic, chapter 18.25 RCW; naturopathy, chapter 18.36A RCW; podiatric medicine and surgery, chapter 18.22 RCW; dentistry, chapter 18.32 RCW; optometry, chapter 18.53 RCW; occupational therapy, chapter 18.59 RCW; physical therapy, chapter 18.74 RCW; in the case of claims solely for mental health conditions, psychology, chapter 18.83 RCW; physician assistants, chapter 18.71A RCW; and licensed advanced registered nurse practitioners, chapter 18.79 RCW.