SHB 1720: Expanding the types of medication assistance that may be provided to residents of community-based care settings.
Signed into law: Chapter 26, Laws of 2025
- Sponsor
- Schmick
- Introduced
- January 29, 2025
- Status
- C 26 L 25
- Last action
- Effective date 7/27/2025. (April 7, 2025)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Expands the authority for persons who are not practitioners to assist persons with prefilled insulin syringes to apply to setting up diabetic devices for self-administration and handing injectable medications to the person for self-administration.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 20, 202597 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 26, 202549 yea · 0 nay
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