Florida Senate - 2022                                    SB 1532
       
       
        
       By Senator Ausley
       
       
       
       
       
       3-01331-22                                            20221532__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to nursing home facility quality
    3         assessments; amending s. 409.9082, F.S.; exempting
    4         certain nursing home facility providers from quality
    5         assessments; providing an effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    8  
    9         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
   10  409.9082, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         409.9082 Quality assessment on nursing home facility
   12  providers; exemptions; purpose; federal approval required;
   13  remedies.—
   14         (3)(a) The following nursing home facility providers are
   15  exempt from the quality assessment:
   16         1. Nursing home facilities that are licensed under part II
   17  of chapter 400 and located on the campus of continuing care
   18  retirement communities operating pursuant to a certificate of
   19  authority under chapter 651.;
   20         2. Nursing home facilities that have 45 or fewer beds.; and
   21         3. The skilled nursing facility units of acute care
   22  hospitals licensed by the agency under chapter 395.
   23         4. Nursing home facilities that have 100 or more beds, are
   24  designated as nonprofit organizations under s. 501(c)(3) of the
   25  Internal Revenue Code, and are located within a metropolitan
   26  statistical area with fewer than 500,000 residents which
   27  includes at least one county designated as a rural area of
   28  opportunity as defined in s. 288.0656(2).
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.