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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Concerning psychiatric payments under medical assistance programs for certain rural hospitals that are not designated as critical access hospitals, do not participate in the certified public expenditure program, have less than fifty acute care beds, and have combined medicare and medicaid inpatient days greater than fifty percent of total days."
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description: "Concerning psychiatric payments under medical assistance programs for certain rural hospitals that are not designated as critical access hospitals, do not participate in the certified public expenditure program, have less than fifty acute care beds, and have combined medicare and medicaid inpatient days greater than fifty percent of total days."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
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legislature: "Washington Legislature"
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session: "2019-2020"
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identifier: "HB 1534"
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citation: "Washington HB 1534 (2019-2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["HOSPITALS", "PUBLIC ASSISTANCE", "MENTAL HEALTH"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dufault"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-01-23"
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last_action: "2019-04-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53fba7dc-2d50-4bc6-a88b-331033d28fe0"
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source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1534&year=2019"
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source_hash: "2062708be75895fc144e2be6db9f42687e88b56bab5669dcb143909e434e37f3"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
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---
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# Washington HB 1534 (2019-2020) — Concerning psychiatric payments under medical assistance programs for certain rural hospitals that are not designated as critical access hospitals, do not participate in the certified public expenditure program, have less than fifty acute care beds, and have combined medicare and medicaid inpatient days greater than fifty percent of total days.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1534.htm)
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## Votes
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- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
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- Final Passage (#33) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Dufault — primary (person)
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- Chandler — cosponsor (person)
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- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
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- Cody — cosponsor (person)
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- Corry — cosponsor (person)
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- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
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- Mosbrucker — cosponsor (person)
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- Steele — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-23** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
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- **2019-02-14** APP - Majority; do pass.
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- **2019-02-19** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
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- **2019-02-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
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- **2019-03-01** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
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- **2019-03-01** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
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- **2019-03-05** First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. `reading-1`
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- **2019-03-06** Referred to Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care.
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- **2019-03-22** BH - Majority; do pass.
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- **2019-03-22** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-25** Referred to Ways & Means.
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- **2019-04-05** WM - Majority; do pass.
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- **2019-04-08** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
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- **2019-04-09** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
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- **2019-04-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
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- **2019-04-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 45; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
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- **2019-04-15** Speaker signed. `passage`
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- **2019-04-16** President signed. `passage`
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- **2019-04-18** Delivered to Governor.
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- **2019-04-24** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
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- **2019-04-24** Chapter 116, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
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- **2019-04-24** Effective date 4/24/2019. `became-law`
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- **2019-02-04T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 03:30 PM
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- **2019-02-14T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 03:30 PM
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- **2019-03-15T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care at 01:30 PM
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- **2019-03-22T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care at 01:30 PM
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- **2019-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 12:00 AM
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- **2019-04-05T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 09:00 AM
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53fba7dc-2d50-4bc6-a88b-331033d28fe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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