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2010 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Licensing

Quayle (Chairman), Lucas, Martin, Barker, Northam

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 4, 2010
Time and Place: Thursday, 1/2 hr. after adjournment, 3 E Conf. Rm, G.A.B.

S.B. 263 Nurse practitioners; moves responsibility for licensure and regulation to Board of Nursing.

Patron: Whipple

Nurse practitioners; licensure.  Moves responsibility for licensure and regulation of nurse practitioners from the Boards of Medicine and Nursing jointly to the Board of Nursing.  Also, creates the Advisory Board on Nurse Practitioners and removes certain physician supervision requirements.

S.B. 265 Hospice and home health care; licensure standards to include exemptions applicable to home care.

Patron: Whipple

Hospice and home health care; licensure.  Amends hospice licensure standards to include the same exemptions applicable to home care organizations, and allows inspections of both types of facilities exempt from licensure. The bill also prohibits new home care organizations from being licensed until July 1, 2012, but allows the Commissioner of Health to issue a request for and accept applications for: (i) the establishment of home care organizations in federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas or (ii) home care organizations approved for payments for home health or personal care services by the Department of Medical Assistance Services prior to July 1, 2010.

S.B. 653 Certificate of public need; Commissioner of Health to accept & approve request to amend conditions.

Patron: Northam

Certificate of public need; exception.  Allows the Commissioner of Health to accept and approve a request to amend the conditions of a certificate of public need issued to a continuing care provider registered with the State Corporation Commission in which nursing facility or extended care services are provided to allow such continuing care provider to continue to admit community patients, other than contract holders, to its nursing facility beds through December 31, 2013, if the following conditions are met: (i) the facility is operated as a not-for-profit and (ii) the facility's contract holder occupancy rate is less than 85 percent at the time of such application.