2025 bills / S.B. 240
S.B. 240 Congregate Care Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill requires the state health department to try to decide within seven days whether to grant someone direct patient access after receiving their criminal background report, and lets the department set application fees for that certification. It also bars the state licensing office from restricting a congregate care program's new admissions or its rights just because the program has a conditional license or is appealing an action, and sets conditions for inspections, notices, and lifting license restrictions.
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Official description
- requires the Department of Health and Human Services (department) to make reasonable effort to determine within seven days after receiving a completed report from the Bureau of Criminal Identification about an individual whether to grant direct patient access to the individual
- authorizes the department to establish fees for applications for certification for direct patient access
- prohibits the Office of Licensing (office) from:
- placing a restriction or prohibition on new admissions based on the sole fact that the program is operating under a conditional license; or
- altering or restricting the rights of a congregate care program based on the sole fact that the program has appealed an agency action or an appeal or adjudicative proceeding is pending
- requires the office, if conditions are met, to:
- inspect a congregate care program
- provide notice to a congregate care program; or
- remove restrictions and conditions on a congregate care program's license
- makes technical changes
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Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · 2/20/2025 4:28 PMWho voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: Amendment Recommendation · 2/20/2025 4:28 PMWho voted how
- 3 yes, 2 no, 2 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · 2/20/2025 5:04 PMWho voted how
- 21 yes, 2 no, 6 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/24/2025 4:46 PMWho voted how
- 21 yes, 3 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/25/2025 11:14 AMWho voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · 3/4/2025 3:07 PMWho voted how