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AMENDMENT NO 2 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

House Bill No. 1221

BY: Senator(s) Lee (47th)

     AMEND by inserting the following after line 1234:

     (18)  The State Department of Health shall authorize the transfer and relocation of nursing facility beds licensed to Hotel Reed Nursing Center in Hancock County under License Number 452 as follows:  of the ninety-eight (98) licensed beds, twenty-eight (28) may be transferred to Stone County and seventy (70) may be transferred to any county within District IV Long-Term Care Planning District.  The CON shall be issued by the Department of Health within ten (10) working days of submission of the application.  If the CON is not issued within this period, it shall be considered issued by action of law.  There shall be no prohibition or restrictions on participation in the Medicaid program (Section 43-13-101 et seq.) for the person receiving the certificate of need authorized under this paragraph or for the beds converted pursuant to the authority of that certificate of need.

     FURTHER, AMEND the title on line 29 by inserting the following after the semicolon:

TO DIRECT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO TRANSFER CERTAIN NURSING FACILITY BEDS FROM HANCOCK COUNTY TO STONE AND OTHER COUNTIES WITHIN THE DISTRICT IV LONG-TERM CARE PLANNING DISTRICT;