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CS/CS/SB 268: Certificates of Need

GENERAL BILL by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs ; Health Policy ; Grimsley ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Diaz de la Portilla

Certificates of Need; Decreasing the subdistrict average occupancy rate that the Agency for Health Care Administration is required to maintain as a goal of its nursing-home-bed-need methodology; providing that, under certain circumstances, replacement of a nursing home and relocation of a portion of a nursing home’s licensed beds to another facility, or to establish a new facility, is a health-care-related project subject to expedited review; repealing provisions relating to the moratorium on the approval of certificates of need for additional community nursing home beds, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2014
 Last Action: 4/23/2014 Senate - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 287 (Ch. 2014-110) -SJ 567
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (CF)
  3. Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
  4. Appropriations (AP)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
10/14/2013 Senate • Filed
11/4/2013 Senate • Referred to Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 30
12/20/2013 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/08/14, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
1/8/2014 Senate • CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 -SJ 138
1/9/2014 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
1/13/2014 Senate • Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs -SJ 138
3/4/2014 Senate • Introduced -SJ 30
• CS by Health Policy read 1st time -SJ 120
3/13/2014 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/18/14, 8:00 am, 37 Senate Office Building
3/18/2014 Senate • CS/CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 -SJ 304
3/19/2014 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
3/20/2014 Senate • CS/CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time -SJ 306
3/24/2014 Senate • Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services -SJ 304
3/28/2014 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 04/02/14, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
4/2/2014 Senate • Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 -SJ 443
• Now in Appropriations -SJ 443
4/7/2014 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/10/14, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
4/10/2014 Senate • Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 -SJ 510
4/11/2014 Senate • Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading -SJ 510
• Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/14
4/23/2014 Senate • Read 2nd time -SJ 567
• Substituted CS/CS/HB 287 -SJ 567
• Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 287 (Ch. 2014-110) -SJ 567