House Bill 1666 (Chapter 275, Laws of 2007) from the 2007 Legislature repealed the sunset of SHB 1691 (Laws 2004) allowing Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (ARNPs) to permanently be attending providers. This is currently in effect via an emergency rule filed by the department. This rulemaking will permanently adopt this change in WAC 296-23-241 to establish that ARNPs may be the attending provider but may not rate permanent partial disabilities for workers’ compensation purposes. The changes were adopted 2/5/2008 and became effective on 2/22/2008.461.

The purpose of this emergency rule making is to remove the expiration date currently referred to in WAC 296-23-241 for Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (ARNPs) as required by the passage of House Bill 1666 by the 2007 Legislature. Effective June 30, 2007285.