This bill adds a new section to chapter 43.70 RCW that creates a new legal requirement directing "the department" to build and install an interface between the Washington emergency medical services information system and an overdose detection mapping application program. The interface must provide universal access to both fatal and nonfatal overdose information to all law enforcement agencies and other emergency service providers in Washington. This is a procedural data‑sharing change creating a new information‑sharing duty under state law. The bill requires the department to aggregate the overdose data by zip code to address HIPAA and other privacy considerations. The change cites the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 but does not define the systems named, identify which specific state department is meant by "the department," or supply a new RCW section number. Important implementation details are not included in the extracted text: there are no deadlines, funding sources, administrative authority, data access controls, enforcement mechanisms, or definitions for the Washington emergency medical services information system or the overdose detection mapping application program. The bill was read for the first time on 02/11/25.

If enacted, an unnamed state department would be required to build and install an interface that links Washington’s emergency medical services information system with the overdose detection mapping application so that fatal and nonfatal overdose information is made universally available to every law enforcement agency and other emergency service provider in the state. The data must be provided in aggregated form by zip code to address HIPAA and other privacy considerations, so local responders would gain broader, zip code–level visibility of overdose patterns for planning and response. The department will take on a new development and maintenance responsibility and is likely to incur costs and staffing needs to create and run the interface, but the bill text does not identify which agency must act, provide funding, set a timeline, or specify access controls or enforcement, leaving open who pays, when it happens, and how privacy protections and operational details will be implemented.