CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2115
Chapter 257, Laws of 2024
68th Legislature
2024 Regular Session
ABORTION MEDICATIONS—PRESCRIPTION LABELS WITHOUT PRACTITIONER NAME
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the House March 4, 2024 CERTIFICATE
Yeas 61 Nays 36
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the
House of Representatives of the
LAURIE JINKINS State of Washington, do hereby
Speaker of the House of certify that the attached is
Representatives ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL
2115 as passed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate on
the dates hereon set forth.
Passed by the Senate February 23,
2024
Yeas 33 Nays 14 BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk
DENNY HECK
President of the Senate
Approved March 26, 2024 9:12 AM FILED
March 27, 2024
Secretary of State
JAY INSLEE State of Washington
Governor of the State of Washington
 ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2115
AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington 68th Legislature 2024 Regular Session
By House Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by
Representatives Thai, Slatter, Senn, Chapman, Reed, Ramel, Macri,
Gregerson, Doglio, Fosse, Riccelli, Wylie, and Reeves)
READ FIRST TIME 01/22/24.
1 AN ACT Relating to prescription labels for medications used for
2 abortion; and amending RCW 69.41.050.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
4 Sec. 1. RCW 69.41.050 and 2003 c 53 s 325 are each amended to
5 read as follows:
6 (1) To every box, bottle, jar, tube, or other container of a
7 legend drug, which is dispensed by a practitioner authorized to
8 prescribe legend drugs, there shall be affixed a label bearing the
9 name of the prescriber, complete directions for use, the name of the
10 drug either by the brand or generic name and strength per unit dose,
11 name of patient and date: PROVIDED, That the practitioner may omit
12 the name and dosage of the drug if he or she determines that his or
13 her patient should not have this information and that, if the drug
14 dispensed is a trial sample in its original package and which is
15 labeled in accordance with federal law or regulation, there need be
16 set forth additionally only the name of the issuing practitioner and
17 the name of the patient.
18 (2)(a) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, at a
19 prescriber's request, the prescription label for abortion medications
20 may include the prescribing and dispensing health care facility name
21 instead of the name of the practitioner.
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1 (b) For the purposes of this subsection, "abortion medications"
2 means substances used in the course of medical treatment intended to
3 induce the termination of a pregnancy including, but not limited to,
4 mifepristone.
5 (3) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.
Passed by the House March 4, 2024.
Passed by the Senate February 23, 2024.
Approved by the Governor March 26, 2024.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 27, 2024.
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Statutes affected:
Original Bill: 18.64.246, 69.41.050
Substitute Bill: 18.64.246, 69.41.050
Engrossed Substitute: 69.41.050
Bill as Passed Legislature: 69.41.050
Session Law: 69.41.050