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Committee OKs consolidation of nursing home and residential care boards into a single long-term care administrators board
Summary
Senators voted to send House Bill 28 to the floor; the bill would merge the Residential Care Administrators Act and Nursing Home Administrators Act into a new Long Term Care Administrators Act and create one regulating board.
Sen. Carl Bjerke, who identified himself as representing Legislative District 5 in Kootenai County, told the committee House Bill 28 would consolidate the Residential Care Administrators Act and the Nursing Home Administrators Act into the Long Term Care Administrators Act and create an Idaho Board of Long Term Care Administrators.
Bjerke said industry stakeholders participated in the consolidation work and the bill has no fiscal impact on the division's dedicated funds, general fund or federal funds. "In reality, this really is just a combining of two boards," he said.
Sen. Harris moved and the committee approved a motion to send House Bill 28 to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation. The committee recorded the approval by voice vote.
Supporters during the hearing said consolidation will streamline oversight and reduce duplication by placing regulation of both residential and nursing home administrators under one board. No opposition or fiscal objections were recorded in the committee's excerpt.
