Honorable Jane Nelson, Chair, Senate Committee on Health & Human Services
FROM:
John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB874 by Nelson (Relating to quality-of-care monitoring visits to long-term care facilities.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend 255.003 of the Health and Safety Code to allow Department of Aging and Disability Services quality-of-care monitors to give a nursing facility, assisted living facility, or Intermediate Care Facility for Persons with Mental Retardation (ICF/MR) advance notice of an upcoming monitoring visit. Current law requires such visits to be unannounced.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies:
529 Health and Human Services Commission, 539 Department of Aging and Disability Services