Florida Senate - 2011 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1972 Barcode 911184 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: WD . 03/30/2011 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Health Regulation (Fasano) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Between lines 462 and 463 4 insert: 5 Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 6 408.040, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 7 408.040 Conditions and monitoring.— 8 (1) 9 (b) The agency may consider, in addition to the other 10 criteria specified in s. 408.035, a statement of intent by the 11 applicant that a specified percentage of the annual patient days 12 at the facility will be usedutilizedby patients eligible for 13 care under Title XIX of the Social Security Act. AAny14 certificate of need issued to a nursing home in reliance upon 15 such statementan applicant’s statements that a specified16percentage of annual patient days will be utilized by residents17eligible for care under Title XIX of the Social Security Act18 must include a statement that such certification is a condition 19 of issuance of the certificate of need. The certificate-of-need 20 program shall notify the Medicaid program office and the 21 Department of Elderly Affairs when it imposes conditions as 22 authorized in this paragraph in an area in which a community 23 diversion pilot project is implemented. Effective March 31, 24 2012, the agency may not consider, or impose conditions related 25 to, patient day utilization by patients eligible for care under 26 Title XIX of the Social Security Act in making certificate-of 27 need determinations for nursing homes. 28 29 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 30 And the title is amended as follows: 31 Delete line 4 32 and insert: 33 made by the act; amending s. 408.040, F.S.; deleting a 34 condition for determining whether to issue a 35 certificate of need to a nursing home; providing a 36 directive to the Division of Statutory Revision; 37 amending s. 409.016, F.S.; conforming