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CS/CS/SB 596: Long-term Care

GENERAL BILL by Appropriations ; Health, Aging and Long-Term Care ; Health, Aging and Long-Term Care

Long-term Care; Health, Aging and Long-Term Care (Compare 2ND ENG/H 0703, S 0414, CS/2ND ENG/S 1276, CS/CS/S 1838) Long-term Care; provides legislative findings & intent re needs of state's elderly population; requires AHCA & Elderly Affairs Dept. to submit plan to Governor & Legislature for reducing nursing-home-bed days funded under Medicaid program; requires AHCA to establish nursing facility preadmission screening program through interagency agreement with Elderly Affairs Dept.; establishes Long-Term-Care Policy Office within said dept, etc. Amends FS.

Effective Date: 07/01/2002
Last Action: 3/22/2002 Senate - In returning messages; Died in returning Messages, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/SB 1276 (Ch. 2002-223)
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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
11/29/2001 Senate • Prefiled
12/27/2001 Senate • Referred to Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
1/22/2002 Senate • Introduced, referred to Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 00040; On Committee agenda-- Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, 01/23/02, 2:00 pm, 110-S --Temporarily postponed
1/24/2002 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, 01/29/02, 1:30 pm, 110-S
1/29/2002 Senate • CS by Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 -SJ 00195; CS read first time on 01/31/02 -SJ 00197
1/30/2002 Senate • Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services -SJ 00195
2/20/2002 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/25/02, 3:30 pm, 309-C
2/25/2002 Senate • CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 -SJ 00348; CS read first time on 02/27/02 -SJ 00350
2/26/2002 Senate • Now in Appropriations -SJ 00348
2/27/2002 Senate • Withdrawn from Appropriations -SJ 00346; Placed on Calendar, on second reading
3/6/2002 Senate • Placed on Special Order Calendar -SJ 00433; Read second time -SJ 00405; Amendment(s) adopted -SJ 00405; Ordered engrossed -SJ 00405
3/7/2002 Senate • Read third time -SJ 00456; CS passed as amended; YEAS 32 NAYS 0
3/13/2002 House • In Messages
3/21/2002 House • Received -HJ 02653; Read second time -HJ 02653; Amendment(s) adopted -HJ 02653
3/22/2002 House • Read third time -HJ 02778; CS passed as amended; YEAS 114 NAYS 1 -HJ 02778
3/22/2002 Senate • In returning messages; Died in returning Messages, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/SB 1276 (Ch. 2002-223)