Legislature(1999 - 2000)
1999-05-07 House Journal
Full Journal pdf1999-05-07 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.