Legislature(2023 - 2024)
2023-05-08 House Journal
Full Journal pdf2023-05-08 House Journal Page 0972 SB 57 The following was read the second time: CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 57(FIN) am "An Act relating to home- and community-based services under the medical assistance program; relating to medical assistance for recipients of Medicaid waivers; establishing an adult care home license and procedures; providing for the transition of individuals from foster care to adult home care settings; and providing for an effective date." 2023-05-08 House Journal Page 0973 with the: Journal Page FIN RPT HCS(FIN) 11DP 912 FN3: (DOH) 912 FN4: (DOH) 912 FN5: ZERO(DOH) 912 FN6: ZERO(DOH) 912 FN7: (DOH) 912 Representative Saddler moved and asked unanimous consent that the following committee substitute be adopted in lieu of the original bill: HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 57(FIN) (same title) There being no objection, it was so ordered. Amendment No. 1 was offered by Representative Ruffridge: Page 1, line 1, following "Act" (title amendment): Insert "relating to the sharing of confidential health information between the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services;" Page 1, following line 5: Insert a new bill section to read: "* Section 1. AS 47.05 is amended by adding a new section to article 1 to read: Sec. 47.05.115. Access to identifiable health information. Notwithstanding a contrary provision of law, the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services shall share identifiable health information, regardless of the confidential nature of the information, between and within the departments as necessary to enable administration or operation of the sending or receiving department. Information shared in accordance with this section shall be acquired, used, disclosed, and stored in a confidential manner that safeguards the security of the information in a physically, administratively, and technologically secure environment. In this section, "identifiable health information" has the meaning given in AS 18.15.395." 2023-05-08 House Journal Page 0974 Page 1, line 6: Delete "Section 1" Insert "Sec. 2" Renumber the following bill sections accordingly. Page 5, line 2: Delete "sec. 2" Insert "sec. 3" Page 5, line 5: Delete "sec. 2" Insert "sec. 3" Page 5, line 8: Delete "Section 2" Insert "Section 3" Page 5, line 10: Delete "sec. 7" Insert "sec. 8" Page 5, line 14: Delete "sec. 2" Insert "sec. 3" Page 5, line 15: Delete "sec. 2" Insert "sec. 3" Page 5, line 16: Delete "sec. 8(b)" Insert "sec. 9(b)" Representative Ruffridge moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 1 be adopted. Representative Eastman objected. Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 1 was offered by Representative Eastman: 2023-05-08 House Journal Page 0975 Page 1, following line 15 of the amendment: Insert "An employee of either department may not be retaliated against for a voluntary disclosure of confidential information to a law enforcement agency pursuant to an active law enforcement investigation." Representative Eastman moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 1 be adopted. There was objection. The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 1 be adopted?" The roll was taken with the following result: HCS CSSB 57(FIN) Second Reading Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 1 YEAS: 1 NAYS: 39 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Eastman Nays: Allard, Armstrong, Carpenter, Carrick, Coulombe, Cronk, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, Josephson, McCabe, McCormick, McKay, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Patkotak, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Schrage, Shaw, Stapp, Story, Stutes, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright And so, Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 1 was not adopted. Representative Eastman withdrew the objection. There being no further objection, Amendment No. 1 was adopted and the new title follows: HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 57(FIN) am H "An Act relating to the sharing of confidential health information between the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services; relating to home- and community-based services under the medical assistance program; relating to medical assistance for recipients of Medicaid waivers; establishing an adult care home license and procedures; providing for the transition of individuals from foster care to adult home care settings; and providing for an effective date." 2023-05-08 House Journal Page 0976 Amendment No. 2 was offered by Representative McCormick: Page 1, line 3 (title amendment): Delete "an adult" Insert "a host" Page 1, line 4: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 1, line 11: Delete "Adult" Insert "Host" Page 1, line 12: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 2, line 5: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 2, line 7: Delete "an adult" Insert "a host" Page 2, line 11: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 2, line 14: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 2, line 16: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 2, line 18: Delete "an adult" Insert "a host" 2023-05-08 House Journal Page 0977 Page 2, line 20: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 2, line 23: Delete "an adult" Insert "a host" Page 3, line 17: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 3, line 19: Delete "Adult" Insert "Host" Page 3, line 21: Delete "an adult" Insert "a host" Page 3, line 26: Delete "An adult" Insert "A host" Page 4, line 24: Delete the first occurrence of "adult" Insert "host" Page 5, line 2: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Page 5, line 4: Delete "adult" Insert "host" Representative McCormick moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 2 be adopted. Objection was heard and withdrawn. There being no further objection, Amendment No. 2 was adopted and the new title follows: 2023-05-08 House Journal Page 0978 HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 57(FIN) am H "An Act relating to the sharing of confidential health information between the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services; relating to home- and community-based services under the medical assistance program; relating to medical assistance for recipients of Medicaid waivers; establishing a host care home license and procedures; providing for the transition of individuals from foster care to host home care settings; and providing for an effective date." Representative Saddler moved and asked unanimous consent that HCS CSSB 57(FIN) am H be considered engrossed, advanced to third reading, and placed on final passage. There being no objection, it was so ordered. HCS CSSB 57(FIN) am H was read the third time. The question being: "Shall HCS CSSB 57(FIN) am H pass the House?" The roll was taken with the following result: HCS CSSB 57(FIN) am H Third Reading Final Passage YEAS: 39 NAYS: 1 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Allard, Armstrong, Carpenter, Carrick, Coulombe, Cronk, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, Josephson, McCabe, McCormick, McKay, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Patkotak, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Schrage, Shaw, Stapp, Story, Stutes, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright Nays: Eastman And so, HCS CSSB 57(FIN) am H passed the House. Representative Saddler moved and asked unanimous consent that the roll call on the passage of the bill be considered the roll call on the effective date clause. There being no objection, it was so ordered. HCS CSSB 57(FIN) am H was referred to the Chief Clerk for engrossment.