Long-term Care/Medicaid
Long-Term Care & Medicaid
| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 415 - Oder - Certificate of public need; relocation of nursing home beds from one facility to another facility. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) | 04/11/10 |
| notes: Provides that the relocation of no more than 10 nursing home beds or 10 percent of the beds, whichever is less, from one facility to another facility under common ownership or control that is located in an adjacent planning district shall not constitute a "project" and shall be exempt from the requirement of a certificate of public need, provided that the facility to which the beds will be relocated is in compliance with all other laws governing such facilities and, as of December 31 of the year preceding the year in which relocation is proposed, (i) the occupancy rate of the facility from which beds are to be relocated was, based upon the total number of beds for which the facility is licensed, less than 90 percent for that preceding year; (ii) the average occupancy rate of the facility to which beds are to be relocated was, based upon the total number of beds for which the facility is licensed, 95 percent or more over the previous two years; and (iii) prior to the transfer, the facility to which the beds are to be relocated was licensed for 50 or fewer nursing home beds. | |||
| HB 514 - Rust - Long-term services; SHHR develop blueprint for livable communities for people with disabilities. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) | 04/11/10 |
| notes: Provides for the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to coordinate the development of a blueprint for livable communities and long-term services and supports for older Virginians and people with disabilities. In addition, the bill amends provisions relating to the development by the Department for the Aging of a four-year plan for aging services. The bill also repeals the authority for Campbell County to contract with the Area Agency on Aging designated to serve the County to provide certain services specified by federal law. Same as SB410. | |||
| HB 1050 - Garrett - Income tax, state; long-term care insurance tax credit. | (H) Committee on Appropriations (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) | 03/08/10 |
| notes: Doubles the amount of the credit an individual can take for long-term care insurance from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premium paid for such insurance, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010. | |||
| HJ 82 - Hope - Health care homes, chronic; Joint Commission on Health Care to study feasibility of developing. | (H) Committee on Rules (S) Committee on Rules | (H) Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ82ER) | 03/11/10 |
| notes: Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to review available information including information about chronic health care home systems in other states to develop recommendations related to the development of a system of chronic health care homes in the Commonwealth. | |||
| SB 275 - Whipple - Advance medical directives; clarifies authority. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) | 04/21/10 |
| notes: Clarifies authority of an advance directive in cases in which a person is subject to an emergency custody, temporary detention, involuntary admission, or mandatory outpatient treatment order; eliminates the requirement that a second physician or licensed clinical psychologist provide a written certification that a patient is incapable of making an informed decision in cases in which the patient is unconscious or experiencing a profound impairment of conscious function due to trauma, stroke, or other acute physiological condition; adds a provision authorizing a person who has exhibited special care and concern for a patient and is familiar with the patient's beliefs and values to make health care decisions on that patient's behalf if the patient is incapable of making an informed decision; and clarifies the procedure regarding decisions over a patient's protest. This bill also provides that a public guardian may authorize admission of an incapacitated person to a mental health facility in certain situations. | |||
| SB 410 - Vogel - Long-term services; SHHR to develop blueprint for livable communities for people with disabilities. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) | 04/21/10 |
| notes: State aging services; blueprint for livable communities and long-term services and supports for older Virginians and people with disabilities. Provides for the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to coordinate the development of a blueprint for livable communities and long-term services and supports for older Virginians and people with disabilities. In addition, the bill amends provisions relating to the development by the Department for the Aging of a four-year plan for aging services. The bill also repeals the authority for Campbell County to contract with the Area Agency on Aging designated to serve the County to provide certain services specified by federal law. Same as HB514 | |||
| SB 653 - Northam - Certificate of public need; Commissioner of Health to accept & approve request to amend conditions. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) | 04/12/10 |
| notes: Certificate of public need; exception. Allows the Commissioner of Health to accept and approve a request to amend the conditions of a certificate of public need issued to a continuing care provider registered with the State Corporation Commission in which nursing facility or extended care services are provided to allow such continuing care provider to continue to admit community patients, other than contract holders, to its nursing facility beds through December 31, 2013, if the following conditions are met: (i) the facility is operated as a not-for-profit and (ii) the facility's contract holder occupancy rate is less than 85 percent at the time of such application. | |||