Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0811

1E Requiring the commissioner of human services to increase nursing facility,
intermediate care facility for mentally retarded (ICF/MR) and community services
provider medical assistance (MA) payment rates, requiring use to increase wages
and benefits for certain employees and to increase the number of staff;
specifying certain application and approved distribution plan availability
requirements and certain audit requirements of the commissioner; authorizing the
commissioner to authorize nursing facilities to raise per diem rates for private
pay residents; requiring the commissioner to appoint a nursing facility health
insurance task force, specifying certain membership representation requirements
and duties; requiring nursing facility annual reporting of certain statistical
and cost information to the commissioner, authorizing commissioner reduction or
withholding of payments for failure to comply; requiring an increase in the
required minimum nursing hours in licensed nursing facilities, specifying
certain minimum staffing ratio requirements and requiring adjustment to meet
higher care needs; requiring the commissioner of health to review the content of
the current curriculum for the training of nursing assistants and home health
aides for skills, job satisfaction and motivation improvement purposes,
requiring the commissioner by a certain date to submit recommendations for
updating the curriculum to the legislature; requiring the commissioner of human
services in consultation and coordination with the commissioner of health to
create a long term care task force to develop a plan to reduce nursing facility
bed capacity, requiring a commissioner report to the legislature by a certain
date
(ra, ja)