RCW 71.32.070
Prohibited elements.
A directive may not:
(1) Create an entitlement to behavioral health or medical treatment or supersede a determination of medical necessity;
(2) Obligate any health care provider, professional person, or health care facility to pay the costs associated with the treatment requested;
(3) Obligate any health care provider, professional person, or health care facility to be responsible for the nontreatment personal care of the principal or the principal's personal affairs outside the scope of services the facility normally provides;
(4) Replace or supersede the provisions of any will or testamentary document or supersede the provisions of intestate succession;
(5) Be revoked by an incapacitated principal unless that principal selected the option to permit revocation while incapacitated at the time his or her directive was executed; or
(6) Be used as the authority for inpatient admission for more than 14 days in any 21 day period.
[ 2021 c 287 § 9; 2003 c 283 § 7.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 71.32 - Mental Health Advance Directives.
71.32.010 - Legislative declaration—Findings.
71.32.030 - Construction of definitions.
71.32.040 - Presumption of capacity.
71.32.050 - Execution of directive—Scope.
71.32.060 - Execution of directive—Elements—Effective date—Expiration.
71.32.070 - Prohibited elements.
71.32.080 - Revocation—Waiver.
71.32.100 - Appointment of agent.
71.32.110 - Determination of capacity.
71.32.120 - Action to contest directive.
71.32.130 - Determination of capacity—Reevaluations of capacity.
71.32.140 - Refusal of admission to inpatient treatment—Effect of directive.
71.32.150 - Compliance with directive—Conditions for noncompliance.
71.32.160 - Electroconvulsive therapy.
71.32.170 - Providers—Immunity from liability—Conditions.
71.32.180 - Multiple directives, agents—Effect—Disclosure of court orders.
71.32.190 - Preexisting, foreign directives—Validity.
71.32.200 - Fraud, duress, undue influence—Appointment of guardian.
71.32.210 - Execution of directive not evidence of behavioral health disorder or lack of capacity.
71.32.220 - Requiring directive prohibited.
71.32.230 - Coercion, threats prohibited.
71.32.240 - Other authority not limited.
71.32.270 - Family-initiated treatment.
71.32.902 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.