Official Text and Analysis.

Replaces references to "chemical dependency professional" and "chemical dependency professional trainee" with the terms "substance use disorder professional" and "substance use disorder professional trainee," consistent with the rest of the bill.

Allows a co-occurring disorder specialist to provide substance use disorder treatment to clients who are also diagnosed with a mental illness, which does not necessarily need to be a serious mental illness. (2) Allows a co-occurring disorder specialist to additionally provide substance use disorder assessment and treatment services in a federally qualified health center or hospital. (3) Removes the requirement for the Department of Health to develop a competency examination for co-occurring disorder specialists and instead requires these professionals to complete an approved examination based on core competencies of substance use disorder counseling. (4) Allows a certified co-occurring disorder specialist to provide supervised training for applicants to become substance use disorder professionals (SUDPs) or co-occurring disorder specialists. (5) Replaces authorization for co-occurring disorder specialists to provide services that are coextensive with SUDPs, subject to specified practice limitations, with an authorization for them to provide services that are equal in scope to SUDPs, subject to the same practice limitations. (6) Specifies that the requirement for the Department of Health (DOH) to revise rules to allow for the practice of co-occurring disorder specialists must include WAC 246-341-0515, relating to professionals who are authorized to deliver services in an agency licensed by DOH to provide behavioral health services. (7) Amends the definitions of "gravely disabled," "likelihood of serious harm," and "violent act" used for the involuntary commitment of adults and minors who require treatment for a behavioral health disorder in order to reduce a risk of harm, and adds a new definition of "severe deterioration from safe behavior" which relates to the amendments to the definition for gravely disabled.