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HB 1870 Certificate of public need; nursing homes and hospitals, establishing a disaster exemption.
Introduced by: Mark D. Sickles | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Certificate of public need; hospitals and nursing homes; disaster exemption; regulations. Provides for a 30-day exemption from the requirement to obtain a certificate of public need for an increase in the total number of beds in existing hospitals or nursing homes if the State Health Commissioner has determined that a natural or man-made disaster has caused the evacuation of a hospital or nursing home and that a public health emergency exists due to a shortage of hospital or nursing home beds. The Board of Health shall adopt regulations for this exemption. This bill is identical to SB 1277.
FULL TEXT
- 01/03/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101516D pdf | impact statement
- 01/24/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19104504D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/13/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1870ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/03/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101516D
- 01/03/19 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/24/19 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19104504D-H1
- 01/28/19 House: Read first time
- 01/29/19 House: Read second time
- 01/29/19 House: Committee substitute agreed to 19104504D-H1
- 01/29/19 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1870H1
- 01/30/19 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/19 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 01/30/19 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/19 House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/31/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/07/19 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/19 Senate: Read third time
- 02/11/19 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/19 House: Enrolled
- 02/13/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1870ER)
- 02/13/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/14/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/15/19 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
- 02/15/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
- 02/22/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 136 (effective 7/1/19)
- 02/22/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136)