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Senate committee advances residential care licensing changes; results of investigations to be posted on DHHS website
Summary
Senate Bill 37 was reported ought to pass with amendment. The bill requires licensed residential care facilities to have quality assurance programs, requires posting of investigation results on the Department of Health and Human Services website (per a floor amendment), and requires posting of life-safety inspection notices.
The Senate on the motion of the Health and Human Services Committee moved Senate Bill 37 out "ought to pass with amendment." The bill, a request from the Department of Health and Human Services, revises residential care and health facility licensing requirements.
Senator Long summarized the committee's recommendation and the bill's provisions. The measure requires licensed residential care facilities to maintain quality assurance programs, requires posting the results of investigations and life-safety inspection notices (known as "notices to correct"), removes a redundant reference to administrative fines, and updates terminology from "hospital" to "facility." Senator Long described a committee amendment that fixed a technical error and then supported a floor amendment offered by Senator Pearl.
Senator Pearl explained the floor amendment (0307S) was developed with the hospital association and DHHS to change a posting requirement: rather than requiring the results of DHHS investigations be posted physically in the facility, the amendment requires those results to be posted on the department's website. The Senate adopted the committee amendment and then the floor amendment; the bill then passed second reading as amended and was ordered to third reading.
Senator Long said the committee supported the changes and asked colleagues to join in voting for the bill.
