1999-05-07                     House Journal                      Page 1222
HB 187                                                                       
The Finance Committee has considered:                                          
                                                                               
HOUSE BILL NO. 187                                                            
"An Act relating to the certificate of need program for nursing care          
facilities and other facilities; and providing for an effective date."         
                                                                               
and recommends it be replaced with:                                            
                                                                               
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 187(FIN)                                                
"An Act removing a requirement that a certificate of need is                  
needed before elimination of a category of health services                     
provided by a health care facility; prohibiting a person from                  
converting a building or part of a building to a nursing home that             
requires licensure unless authorized by a certificate of need; setting         

1999-05-07                     House Journal                      Page 1223
HB 187                                                                       
a standard of review for applications for certificates of need                
relating to nursing homes and nursing home beds and relating to                
that standard of review; providing that the standard of review for             
applications for certificates of need for beds other than nursing              
home beds or for a health care facility other than a nursing home              
is the availability and quality of existing health care resources or           
the accessibility to those resources compared to the current or                
projected requirement for health services required to maintain the             
good health of citizens of this state; defining the term 'nursing              
home bed'; eliminating statutory references to the office of                   
planning and research in the Department of Health and Social                   
Services; and providing for an effective date."                                
                                                                               
The report was signed by Representative Therriault, Co-chair, with the         
following individual recommendations:                                          
                                                                               
Do pass (3):  Bunde, Davies, Foster                                            
                                                                               
No recommendation (7):  Therriault, Kohring, Austerman, Grussendorf,           
Moses, Davis, Williams                                                         
                                                                               
The following fiscal note applies to CSHB 187(FIN):                            
                                                                               
Fiscal note, Dept. of Health & Social Services, 4/26/99                        
                                                                               
HB 187 was referred to the Rules Committee for placement on the                
calendar.