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Committee backs consolidation of two licensing boards into Idaho Board of Long Term Care Administrators
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 28 to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation; the bill would merge the Residential Care Administrators Act and Nursing Home Administrators Act into a single Long Term Care Administrators Act and create one board to regulate long-term care administrators.
Senators on the Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to forward House Bill 28 to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation. The bill consolidates the Residential Care Administrators Act and the Nursing Home Administrators Act into a single Long Term Care Administrators Act and establishes the Idaho Board of Long Term Care Administrators to carry out licensing and regulatory functions.
Senator Carl Bjerke presented the bill and described it as an administrative consolidation under the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing intended to streamline government and reduce duplication. Bjerke told committee members the industry had been consulted and that the proposal carried no fiscal impact on the division’s dedicated funds, the general fund, or federal funds.
Committee members asked no substantive questions during the presentation. Senator Harris moved to send House Bill 28 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation; Senator Kaiser seconded the motion. The committee voice-voted the motion and recorded no opposition.
The bill is now positioned for consideration on the Senate floor.
