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2005 SESSION
HB 2512 Assisted living facilities; requires administrators to be licensed.
Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Assisted living facilities; civil penalty. Requires administrators of assisted living facilities, except for those providing residential living care only, to be licensed by the Board of Long-Term Care Administrators within the Department of Health Professions. The bill renames the Board of Nursing Home Administrators as the Board of Long-Term Care Administrators. The Board of Long-Term Care Administrators shall adopt regulations on or before July 1, 2007, and the administrator licensing provisions shall not be implemented or enforced until 12 months after the regulations become effective. The bill permits the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services to issue an order of summary suspension of a license to operate an assisted living facility in cases of immediate and substantial threat to the health, safety, and welfare of residents and increases from $500 to $10,000 the maximum civil penalty for an assisted living facility out of compliance with licensure requirements. The bill requires medication aides in assisted living facilities to be registered by the Board of Nursing. The Board of Nursing shall adopt regulations on or before July 1, 2007, and the registration provisions shall not be implemented or enforced until 12 months after the regulations become effective. Regulations for a Medication Management Plan in assisted living facilities are to be developed by the State Board of Social Services, in consultation with the Board of Nursing and the Board of Pharmacy. The bill creates the Assisted Living Facility Education, Training, and Technical Assistance Fund. The bill requires applicants for licensure as an assisted living facility to undergo a background check. The bill also requires each assisted living facility to provide written disclosure documents to residents and their legal representatives, if any, upon admission. Finally, the bill requires the Department for the Aging's contract with the long-term care ombudsman program provide a minimum staffing ratio of one ombudsman to every 2,000 long-term care beds, subject to sufficient funding. Through enactment clauses, the Department of Social Services is charged with developing a training module for adult care licensing inspectors and integrating into the assisted living facility regulations standards that are consistent with recommendations of the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services to ensure appropriate care for residents with mental illness, mental retardation, substance abuse, and other behavioral disabilities. This bill incorporates HB 2150, HB 2362, HB 2537, HB 2545, and HB 2896.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/05 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 051960136 pdf
- 02/03/05 House: Committee substitute printed 051994316-H1 pdf
- 02/14/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 052004316-S1 pdf
- 03/07/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2512ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/06/05 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2512ER2) pdf
- 04/12/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0924) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/12/05 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 051960136
- 01/12/05 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/27/05 House: Reported from H. W. I. w/substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/05 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/28/05 House: Assigned to App. sub-committee: Health & Human Resources
- 02/02/05 House: Reported from Appropriations with sub (24-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/05 House: Committee substitute printed 051994316-H1
- 02/04/05 House: Read first time
- 02/05/05 House: Read second time
- 02/05/05 House: Committee substitute agreed to 051994316-H1
- 02/05/05 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2512H1
- 02/07/05 House: Read third time and passed House (95-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 02/07/05 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (95-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 02/07/05 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/08/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/05 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/11/05 Senate: Reported from R. & S. S. w/substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 052004316-S1
- 02/14/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/15/05 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/15/05 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 052004316-S1
- 02/15/05 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2512S1
- 02/15/05 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/05 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/17/05 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/17/05 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 03/07/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2512ER)
- 03/09/05 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/29/05 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/05/05 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/06/05 House: House concurred in Gov's recommendation (97-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 04/06/05 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 04/06/05 Senate: Senate concurred in Gov's recommendation (37-Y 0-N)
- 04/06/05 Senate: VOTE: ADOPT GOV. RECOMM. R (37-Y 0-N)
- 04/06/05 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/06/05 House: Reenrolled
- 04/06/05 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/06/05 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/06/05 House: Enacted, Chapter 924 (effective 7/1/05)
- 04/06/05 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2512ER2)
- 04/12/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0924)