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Committee OKs consolidation of two long-term care licensing boards into single board
Summary
Senators voted to forward House Bill 28, which would merge the Residential Care Administrators Act and Nursing Home Administrators Act into a Long Term Care Administrators Act and create a single Idaho Board of Long Term Care Administrators; sponsor said stakeholders support the consolidation and there is no fiscal impact to the general fund.
Senator Carl Bjerke, presenting House Bill 28 to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, said the bill consolidates the Residential Care Administrators Act and the Nursing Home Administrators Act into a single Long Term Care Administrators Act and creates an Idaho Board of Long Term Care Administrators to regulate work previously handled by two separate boards.
Bjerke said industry stakeholders participated in the process and “have been very supportive of the work on this consolidation.” He told the committee the measure has no fiscal impact on the division’s dedicated funds and no effect on the general fund or federal funds.
Committee members asked no questions on the bill. Senator Harris moved and Senator Keiser seconded that House Bill 28 be sent to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation. The committee approved the motion by voice vote with no recorded opposition.
The sponsor framed the bill as a streamlining measure within the Idaho Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing aimed at reducing duplicated oversight and stabilizing regulatory functions for long-term care administrators.
