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Current Rules in Progress
The Department of Health has adopted rule amendments to WAC 246-850-060, examination requirements, 246-850-140, continuing competency requirements for orthotists, and prosthetists, and 246-850-150, classification of categories of continuing competency, to remove the Washington state jurisprudence examination (JP exam) as a requirement for initial licensure and instead require the JP exam to be completed within six months of licensure, make completion of the JP exam a continuing competency requirement every three years, and clarify the category of continuing competency that completion of the JP exam satisfies.
The rule amendments to WAC 246-850-060, 246-850-140, and 246-850-150, filed under WSR 25-16-046, became effective on September 1, 2025.