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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 6987

AN ACT CONCERNING CLOSURES AND EVACUATIONS OF RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES AND NURSING HOMES.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Appropriations Committee on April 29, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) require nursing homes and residential care homes to consider resident proximity to family and other support networks when transferring or discharging a resident, (2) require the Commissioner of Public Health to study nursing home and residential care home evacuation procedures relating to transportation, (3) require nursing homes and residential care homes to maintain insurance for residents' personal property lost or damaged as a result of an evacuation, (4) establish a database that provides real-time tracking of nursing home and residential care home bed availability, (5) establish an automated benefits transfer system to facilitate the transfer of benefits and payments when a nursing home or residential care home resident is transferred to a new facility on an emergency basis, and (6) require the Commissioner of Public Health to study methods to employ alternative housing solutions to provide living arrangements to residential care home residents impacted by mandated bed reductions.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

1 co-sponsor

Jane M. Garibay

Its course

February 19 to April 29, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action10 actions on 7 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 19 to Apr 29 · stopped69 days

Aging CommitteeFeb 19 to Mar 615 days

Appropriations CommitteeApr 29 to Apr 29 · stopped0 days

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Feb 19 – Apr 29

  1. Feb 19Introduced and sent to Aging Committee
  2. Feb 24Heard in Aging Committee
  3. Mar 6Aging Committee recommended a substitute for it
  4. Apr 29Sent to Appropriations Committee
All 10 actions, as published
  1. Feb 19REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
  2. Feb 24PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
  3. Mar 6Joint Favorable SubstituteBoth houses
  4. Mar 10FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
  5. Mar 18REFERRED TO OLR, OFABoth houses
  6. Mar 25RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
  7. Mar 25FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDARHouse of Representatives
  8. Mar 25HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBERHouse of Representatives
  9. Mar 25FILE NO.Both houses
  10. Apr 29REF. BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ONHouse of Representatives