February 14, 2006
ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL No. 161
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DIGEST OF SB 161
(Updated February 13, 2006 11:23 am - DI 77)
Citations Affected: IC 16-29; noncode.
Synopsis: Moratorium on comprehensive care beds. Imposes a
moratorium on the construction or addition of comprehensive care beds
through June 30, 2007, with certain exceptions. (The introduced
version of this bill was prepared by the health finance commission.)
Effective: July 1, 2006.
January 9, 2006, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider
Services.
January 19, 2006, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
January 23, 2006, read second time, ordered engrossed. Engrossed.
January 26, 2006, read third time, passed. Yeas 45, nays 2.
HOUSE ACTION
February 2, 2006, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.
February 13, 2006, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
February 14, 2006
Second Regular Session 114th General Assembly (2006)
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ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL No. 161
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
health.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SOURCE: IC 16-29-3-1; (06)ES0161.1.1. -->
SECTION 1. IC 16-29-3-1 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2006]: Sec. 1. Notwithstanding
IC 16-29-1, A hospital licensed under IC 16-21-2 may convert:
(1) beginning January 1, 1986, not more than thirty (30) acute
care beds to skilled care comprehensive long term care beds; and
(2) beginning June 1, 1989, not more than an additional twenty
(20) acute care beds to either intermediate care comprehensive
long term care beds or skilled care comprehensive long term care
beds;
that are to be certified for participation in a state or federal
reimbursement program, including programs a program under Title
XVIII or Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.)
or 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), the state Medicaid program, if those beds
will function essentially as beds licensed under IC 16-28.