Bill > HB1009

This bill adjusts the membership composition of the state pharmacy quality assurance commission by changing the total number of members from 15 to 16 and modifying the breakdown of member types. Specifically, the bill reduces the number of pharmacist members from 10 to 9, maintains four public members, increases pharmacy technician members from one to two, and adds a new provision for one member to be either a public member who is a pharmacy owner, operator, or officer not licensed as a pharmacist or technician. The bill retains existing provisions about member qualifications, such as requiring pharmacist members to be Washington residents with at least five years of consecutive licensure, and ensuring public members are from the state and generally not affiliated with pharmacy. The bill also preserves the current rules about four-year staggered terms, with no member able to serve more than two four-year terms, and maintains the process for gubernatorial appointments with senate consent and procedures for filling vacancies.