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Conferees clear most of nursing-home funding bill but reject cannabis carve-in; debate prompts caucus and delay
Summary
Conferees for the House and Senate met to discuss Senate Bill 118, a bill that would adjust nursing-home personal-needs allowances, create a Hampstead Hospital maintenance fund and address sign-on bonus proration, but debate over attached cannabis-cultivation language prompted a caucus and delay.
Conferees for the House and Senate met to discuss Senate Bill 118, a bill that would make several changes affecting nursing homes and Hampstead Hospital, including updating personal-needs-allowance timing to reflect annual Social Security increases and creating a maintenance fund funded by rent from Dartmouth-Hitchcock. The session broke into caucus after a dispute over newly attached language permitting limited cannabis cultivation for therapeutic use.
Why it matters: supporters said the bill's core purpose is to provide nursing-home residents annual adjustments to personal-needs allowances and to secure a maintenance fund for Hampstead Hospital after Dartmouth-Hitchcock begins paying rent. Opponents objected to attaching cannabis cultivation language…
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