1999-05-22                     House Journal                      Page 1715
HB 187                                                                       
The following was enrolled, signed by the Speaker and Chief Clerk,             
President and Secretary of the Senate, and the engrossed and enrolled          
copies were transmitted to the Office of the Governor at 10:20 a.m.,           
May 22, 1999:                                                                  
                                                                               

1999-05-22                     House Journal                      Page 1716
HB 187                                                                       
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         
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."