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Summary of Details in HB 1351

Section 1
* States the justifications for bill.

Section 2
* Defines pertinent terms.

Section 3
* Outlines the creation of the domestic partnership registry.

Section 4
* Defines who can enter into a state registered domestic partnership.

Section 5
* Describes the process for two people entering into a state registered domestic partnership.

Section 6
* Describes the process for a person to terminate a domestic partnership arrangement.

Section 7

• Disallows domestic partnerships created by public entities other than the state.
  
• Describes how a public entity can make of the definition of state registered domestic partnerships.

Section 8
* Gives domestic partners the same visitation rights at health care facilities that married couples.

Section 9
* States that a certificate of domestic partnership is sufficient evidence to qualify a same-sex partner to receive employee benefits.

Section 10
* Amends RCWs (Revised Codes of Washington) to include domestic partners in provisions regulating public employees' health care coverage, life insurance, liability insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and disability income.

Section 11
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partners in provisions regulating informed consent for health care for a patient who is not competent.

Section 12
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partners in provisions regulating disclosure of health care information about a patient without a patient's authorization.

Section 13
* Amends RCWs to include the termination of domestic partnerships in provisions regulating nonprobate assests.

Section 14
* Amends RCWs to include the termination of domestic partnerships in provisions regulating power of attorney.

Section 15
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating burial plots.

Section 16
* Amends RCWs to include the termination of domestic partnerships in provisions regulating burial plots.

Section 17
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating the transfer of burial plot titles upon the death of a title holder.

Section 18
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating the transfer of burial plot titles when both the title holder and spouse or partner are deceased.

Section 19
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnership in provisions regulating the use of family burial plots.

Section 20
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnership in provisions regulating the waiver of rights with regard to family burial plots.

Section 21
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating the authorization of dissection of a partner or spouse.

Section 22
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating authorization of autopsy or port mortem of a partner or spouse.

Section 23
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating the confidentiality of records obtained from autopsy or post mortem of a spouse or partner.

Section 24
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating the disposition of remains.

Section 25
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating the removal of remains from a burial plot.

Section 26
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating anatomical gifts of a decedent's body or body parts.

Section 27
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating the disposition of the net estate of a person dying intestate.

Section 28
* Amends RCWs to include domestic partnerships in provisions regulating administration of an estate if the decedent died intestate or if representatives named in the will decline or are unable to serve.

Section 29
* Stipulates that Sections 1, 2 and 4 through 8 constitute a new chapter in Title 26 RCW.