1999-05-17                     Senate Journal                      Page 1565
HB 187                                                                       
The Rules Committee considered 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. Signing to calendar: Senator Tim Kelly, Chair,              
Senators Miller, Leman, Pearce. Signing under other                            
recommendations: Senator Ellis.                                                
                                                                               
The bill is on todays calendar.