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CS/CS/SB 834: Nursing Home Facilities

GENERAL BILL by Fiscal Policy ; Health, Aging and Long-Term Care ; Health, Aging and Long-Term Care ; Brown-Waite ; Meek ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Campbell

Nursing Home Facilities; (THIS BILL COMBINES S834,1140,1612) requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Office to establish statewide toll-free telephone number; directs AHCA to contract for consumer satisfaction surveys for nursing home residents; provides certificate-of-need preference for Gold Seal licensees; authorizes agency to require certain facilities to increase staffing; establishes additional Alzheimer's disease memory disorder clinic, etc. Amends FS. APPROPRIATION: $1,506,298.

Effective Date: 07/01/1999 except as otherwise provided
Last Action: 4/29/1999 Senate - Reconsidered -SJ 01436; Amendment(s) adopted -SJ 01436; House Bill substituted -SJ 01437; Laid on Table, Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to HB 1971 (Ch. 99-394)
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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
1/21/1999 Senate • Prefiled
2/2/1999 Senate • Referred to Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; Fiscal Policy
3/2/1999 Senate • Introduced, referred to Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; Fiscal Policy -SJ 00058
3/12/1999 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, 03/17/99, 1:00 pm, Room-110S
3/17/1999 Senate • CS combines this bill with 1140 & 1612; Comm. Action: CS by Health, Aging and Long-Term Care -SJ 00310; CS read first time on 03/24/99 -SJ 00316
3/19/1999 Senate • Now in Fiscal Policy -SJ 00310
3/26/1999 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/31/99, 9:00 am, Room-37S
3/31/1999 Senate • Comm. Action:-CS/CS by Fiscal Policy -SJ 00437; CS read first time on 04/06/99 -SJ 00439
4/1/1999 Senate • Placed on Calendar -SJ 00437
4/8/1999 Senate • Placed on Special Order Calendar -SJ 00481; Read second time -SJ 00479; Amendment(s) failed -SJ 00480; Amendment pending -SJ 00481
4/13/1999 Senate • Placed on Special Order Calendar -SJ 00481, -SJ 00512
4/15/1999 Senate • Placed on Special Order Calendar -SJ 00512, -SJ 00575
4/16/1999 Senate • Placed on Special Order Calendar -SJ 00575
4/21/1999 Senate • Placed on Special Order Calendar -SJ 00637; Substitute amendment adopted for pending amendment -SJ 00631; Amendment(s) adopted -SJ 00630; Ordered engrossed -SJ 00631
4/23/1999 Senate • Read third time -SJ 00760; CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 -SJ 00761
4/26/1999 Senate • Retained -SJ 00886, -SJ 01221, -SJ 01402
4/29/1999 Senate • Reconsidered -SJ 01436; Amendment(s) adopted -SJ 01436; House Bill substituted -SJ 01437; Laid on Table, Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to HB 1971 (Ch. 99-394)