SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 963
89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR FLOTRON.
Read 1st time February 25, 1998, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time March 2, 1998, and referred to the Committee on Aging, Families and Mental Health.
Reported from the Committee March 10, 1998, with recommendation that the bill do pass with Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 adopted March 24 , 1998.
Taken up March 24, 1998. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S3974.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 197.313, RSMo Supp. 1997, relating to care facility licensure, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 197.313, RSMo Supp. 1997, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 197.313, to read as follows:
197.313. A continuing care retirement community, skilled nursing facility or residential care facility I or II may increase its licensed bed capacity by the lessor of ten beds or ten percent only once during the two-year period beginning on July 12, 1996, and ending on July 11, 1998. A facility's increase in beds pursuant to this section shall only be within the same licensure category. Any health care facility which has received a non-applicability certificate of need letter by July 11, 1998, shall be allowed until December 31, 1998, to complete and license the beds allowed by this exception.