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Committee advances bill to merge long-term care boards into single Long Term Care Administrators board
Summary
Senators voted to send House Bill 28 to the floor, which would consolidate the Residential Care Administrators and Nursing Home Administrators boards into a single Idaho Board of Long Term Care Administrators; sponsor and industry representatives said there is no fiscal impact to general funds.
BOISE — The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 28 to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation after the sponsor said the bill consolidates two licensing boards into one and has no fiscal impact.
Sen. Carl Bjerke, R-Legislative District 5 (Kootenai County), told the committee the bill would combine the Residential Care Administrators Act and the Nursing Home Administrators Act into a single Long Term Care Administrators Act and create the Idaho Board of Long Term Care Administrators to regulate the practice.
"This bill consolidates the Residential Care Administrators Act and Nursing Home Administrators Act into the Long Term Care Administrators Act," Bjerke said. He told the committee the industry had been included in development of the bill and supported the consolidation. He also said the bill has no fiscal impact on the division’s dedicated funds or the general fund.
Sen. Harris moved to send House Bill 28 to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation; the motion was seconded and carried by voice vote with committee members recorded saying "Aye" and no opposition noted in the transcript.
The committee did not record detailed fiscal worksheets or additional testimony in the transcript beyond the sponsor’s description that the consolidation is intended to streamline regulation. The bill will proceed to the full Senate for further consideration.
