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Committee advances bill tightening fiduciary and admissions rules for long-term care residents
Summary
The Assembly committee released A1888 (and companion S1962) with amendments clarifying family-member exceptions to restrictions on facility-affiliated persons acting as a principal's attorney-in-fact and expanding the definition of long-term care facilities; advocates urged protections, while industry groups sought narrower scope and changes to standardized-contract provisions.
The Assembly committee on Aging, Health and Human Services on May 7 voted to release A1888, legislation aimed at strengthening protections for residents of long-term care facilities by restricting certain facility-affiliated individuals from serving as a resident’s attorney-in-fact and by adding contract and notice requirements.
The committee’s amendments explicitly state that the bill’s prohibition on certain facility-connected individuals acting as a principal’s attorney-in-fact does not bar a family member from serving in that role, and they add a definition of “family member” (spouse, domestic partner, partner in a civil union, child, parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandparent or grandchild). The amendments also…
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