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Committee backs bill to merge long-term care licensing boards
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 single Long Term Care Administrators Act and create a new board.
Senate Health and Welfare Committee members voted to advance House Bill 28, which would consolidate two licensing boards into a single Idaho Board of Long Term Care Administrators.
Senator Carl Bjerke, R-Kootenai County, said the bill combines the Residential Care Administrators Act and the Nursing Home Administrators Act into the Long Term Care Administrators Act. Under the proposal, one board would regulate what previously required two separate boards, he said, and industry participants have been involved in drafting the consolidation.
Bjerke told the panel the bill has no fiscal impact on the division of occupational and professional licensing’s dedicated funds and does not affect the general fund or federal funds. He asked the committee for a do-pass recommendation.
Senator Harris moved to send the bill to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation; the motion was seconded by Senator Keiser. The committee approved the motion by voice vote with no recorded opposition.
The bill, as described, aims to streamline regulation of long-term care administrators by reducing duplication and centralizing oversight in a single board.
