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Committee advances bill allowing health boards to remove certain remediation records from public license lookup after five years
Summary
House Bill 657 would permit boards to remove adverse-action information tied to completion of peer-assistance or substance-use treatment from the publicly searchable licensure verification website five years after completion, while the underlying order remains a public record.
The House Health Full Committee voted to advance House Bill 657, a measure that would let regulatory health boards remove adverse-action notations from the public-facing license verification website five years after a provider completes a board-ordered peer assistance or substance-use treatment program.
Sponsor Leader Hicks described the bill as a workforce and rehabilitation measure. The sponsor said he reduced an earlier 10-year proposal to a five-year post-completion window. During committee discussion, members expressed both support for…
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