https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAMC/bulletins/3298418

Inslee announces pending rescission of Proclamation 20-32: Waivers ending, and CME requirements being reinstated

On July 29, 2022, Governor Inslee announced his intent to rescind 12 Proclamations, including Proclamation 20-32, which have been in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

When these 12 healthcare-related emergency orders terminate this fall, approximately 87% of all COVID emergency proclamations will have ended.

To ensure that allopathic physicians (MDs) and physician assistants (PAs) have ample time to resume pre-COVID licensing and regulatory requirements Proclamation 20-32’s rescission will become effective on October 27, 2022.

Continuing Medical Education

Proclamation 20-32 has suspended sections of the Washington Administrative Code (chapter 246-919 WAC for MDs and chapter 246-918 WAC for PAs) continuing medical education (CME) requirements. However, with the impending rescission of Proclamation 20-32, practitioner CME requirements will resume this fall.

In conjunction with the Department of Health and other medical professions, the Washington Medical Commission (WMC) will exercise enforcement discretion for MDs and PAs regarding the resumption of CME requirements. WMC will be instating a grace period for MDs and PAs to complete their CME requirements.

CME Attestation Due Dates for Allopathic Physicians (MDs)

CME Attestation Due Every Four Years

After Proclamation 20-32 (effective from March 26, 2020, through October 26, 2022) is rescinded

If your CME attestation is due on your:

Attestation will now be due on your:

Birthday 2022

(After October 27, 2022)

Birthday 2026

Birthday 2023

(Before October 27, 2023) Birthday 2027

CME Attestation Due Dates for Physician Assistants (PAs)

CME Attestation Due Every Two Years

After Proclamation 20-32 (effective from March 26, 2020, through October 26, 2022) is rescinded

If your CME attestation is due on your:

Attestation will now be due on your:

Birthday 2022

(After October 27, 2022)

Birthday 2024

Birthday 2023

(Before October 27, 2023)

Birthday 2025

If you have questions regarding CME requirements or timelines, visit our CME webpage, or contact our Licensing Unit at (360) 236-2750 or via email.

Waivers by Profession

Each WMC licensed profession listed in Proclamation 20-32 will be the focus of future profession-specific notices with reference points to their respective WAC. To ensure you receive these emails, please subscribe here.

PAs, Limited License holders, Retired Active MD licensees, and Retired Active PA licensees should begin now to prepare for the termination of Proclamation 20-32.

Effective on October 27, 2022, the following pre-COVID requirements will all return:

Physician Assistants – physician supervision ratios, and delegation agreement requirements;

Limited License holders – will have restrictions regarding geographic locations or specific jobs as described in their appointments;

Retired Active MD licensees – will have restrictions that include not receiving compensation for health care services and only practicing in emergent or intermittent circumstances; and

Retired Active PA licensees – will have requirements to have a delegation agreement and will be prohibited from receiving compensation for health care services.

If you have questions regarding the rescission of waivers, please contact our Licensing Unit at (360) 236-2750 or email.

Website and Education

Please note that in March of 2020, the WMC posted information regarding Proclamation 20-32 and its associated waivers and suspensions. Those announcements have since been removed to avoid confusion. For reference to those documents, please contact the WMC.

The WMC will hold a webinar regarding changes from the rescission of Proclamation 20-32, including CME attestation requirements, on September 27, 2022. Please subscribe here for registration and date/time information.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bank-will-end-loans-new-gas-diesel-cars-buyers-will-get-loans-right-decision/

Bank Will End Loans for New Gas and Diesel Cars, Buyers Will Only Get Loans for Right Decision

An Australian bank wants to make pumping gas a thing of the past as it announced on Friday that, beginning in 2025, it will not make loans to customers for new vehicles that are not powered by electricity. Bank Australia, however, will continue to make loans for used gas-powered vehicles. (Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images)

You may have heard of a company’s “ESG score”: The initials stand for environmental, social and governance — and the scores businesses receive can determine whether they have access to capital and at what interest rate, among other things.

Now, Bank Australia wants to export that kind of thinking to an individual’s choice of car.

According to Fox Business, the financial institution announced Friday that it will stop providing loans for new gas and diesel cars starting in 2025. Instead, it will only be giving loans to those buying new electric vehicles or used gas and diesel cars.

“We think that the responsible thing for us to do next, is to ensure that our vehicle lending doesn’t lock our customers in to higher carbon emissions and increasingly expensive running costs in the years ahead,” said Bank Australia’s Sasha Courville said in a statement, Fox Business reported.

Courville is Bank Australia’s “chief impact officer.” (That’s seriously his title; this isn’t the Babylon Bee.)

“Ultimately, our announcement today is the beginning of a conversation with our customers and a signal to the wider market that if you’re considering buying a new car, you should think seriously about an electric vehicle – both for its impact on the climate and for its lifetime cost savings,” the statement continued.

This is implying that Australians haven’t thought about it. More than a few new auto buyers likely have — and they’ve said no thanks.

In 2021, 20,665 electric vehicles were sold in Australia, according to data from the Electric Vehicle Council. While that was triple the sales of EVs from the previous year, it still represents only 2 percent of auto sales in the country.

Furthermore, over 60 percent of those sales went to one type of car alone — the Tesla Model 3. At $59,900 Australian to start — almost $41,00 in U.S. dollars — that’s an expensive car for most people.

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Nevertheless, Courville assured the deplorables Down Under that Bank Australia still cares about them, noting the bank would offer loans for used gas cars “until there is a viable and thriving market for electric vehicles.”

“While we will cease car loans for new fossil fuel cars from 2025, we are deeply aware that we need to support people not yet able to afford an electric vehicle while the market grows,” he said.

Just not a new gas or diesel vehicle in their price range. Sorry, Aussie poors. Make more money. Learn to code, mate.

Now, this arguably has as much to do with Bank Australia’s recently announced target date of achieving net-zero emissions by 2035 as it does with any real concern over the environment. That, and several other problematic things with the move, bear noting.

First, remember “Cash for Clunkers,” the Obama-era program where the government paid you a hefty sum to turn in your fuel-thirsty older vehicle as an incentive to buy newer, more efficient models? Bank Australia has essentially instituted a program that could also reasonably be called “Cash for Clunkers” — only the effect is quite the opposite of what the Obama administration was attempting.

Bank Australia will still be giving out loans for petrol-powered autos, after all; they say they’ll be providing them “until there is a viable and thriving market for electric vehicles.” That’s not going to happen in the three years between now and when this takes effect. So, while it won’t give you money for a new gas or diesel vehicle — one that likely has the most up-to-date emissions equipment and better fuel efficiency than older models — it will lend you cash to buy an older car.

The powertrain on that, obviously, won’t just have the latest bells and whistles to help it sip fuel and emit less carbon. Furthermore, thanks to the fact the powertrain isn’t in factory-fresh condition, it likely pollutes with more carbon and consumes more fuel than it did when it was new.

Yet, Bank Australia will only lend to you if you get a new electric vehicle — which I’d predict most Australians aren’t going to do — or if you get a “clunker.” That set of perverse incentives, in other words, will help keep inefficient cars on the road much longer than they’d usually stay there, particularly if other banks follow Bank Australia’s lead. Nice work.

Second, remember this: The question isn’t if this comes to the United States, only when.

It’s not just the woke Wall Street suzerains that give out ESG scores that are attempting to set into motion a series of financial dominoes which will fundamentally transform our lives in a way that makes us poorer and reduces our quality of life.

Banks will do it, too. They’ve already succumbed to the woke agenda, with institutions like Citibank and Bank of America homing in on gun shops that sell items like so-called “high-capacity magazines.”

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It’s a short step from gun-shop owners to car owners. Financial institutions have started bowing down to the deities of wokeness — partly because of their ESG scores, partly because they know where their bread is buttered.

President Joe Biden’s administration and ESG scorers want more action on electric cars? All right: Even if banks don’t forbid loans on gas-powered vehicles, they can make the terms so onerous it discourages purchases.

Arrayed against the average American — those who populate the lower, middle and upper-middle classes — is an interwoven leviathan of leftist governments, unaccountable bureaucrats, a hideously biased mainstream media, supranational organizations like the European Union and corporations like Bank Australia.

They want to sacrifice your ability to provide for yourself and your family on the altar of their agenda.

Your standard of living may be perfectly “sustainable” — especially when compared to the private-jet set that wants the unwashed masses to eat synthetic beef to solve the “climate crisis” — but they don’t care. As far as the global green new deal evangelists are concerned, your life is only important when you’re doing the things they want you to do as part of their attempt to fundamentally transform human society.

If you don’t obey, you won’t get cash for a new car. Get a clunker or figure out how to get enough money for an EV, loser.

The overlords have spoken: Save your pennies, proles.

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there will be no other 'real cars'.

you will neither be able to register them, nor fuel them.

wake up.