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SB 1734: Resident Care in Nursing Home Facilities

GENERAL BILL by Gibson

Resident Care in Nursing Home Facilities; Requiring a resident’s attending health care provider in a nursing home facility to consult with the resident’s personal physician, if selected, in the provision of acute care to the resident and before ordering or prescribing medication to the resident; requiring the resident’s attending health care provider to document any such consultations in the resident’s records; requiring nursing home facilities to take certain measures before admitting a resident; requiring nursing home facilities to provide each resident with the opportunity to select a personal physician; revising the timeframe in which nursing home facilities must furnish requested records of a current or former resident, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2022
Last Action: 3/14/2022 Senate - Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (CF)
  3. Rules (RC)



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
1/7/2022 Senate • Filed
1/12/2022 Senate • Referred to Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules -SJ 149
1/18/2022 Senate • Introduced -SJ 149
2/7/2022 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/10/22, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
2/10/2022 Senate • Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 -SJ 364
• Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
3/12/2022 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
3/14/2022 Senate • Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs