Adopted

AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

Senate Bill No. 2735

BY: Senator(s) Bryan

     AMEND on lines 142 through 153 by deleting the underlined language and restoring the old language.

     AMEND on line 165 by adding the following language:

(k)  "Pilot freestanding emergency room" is a facility open twenty-four (24) hours a day for the treatment of urgent and emergent medical conditions which is not located on a hospital campus.  In order to be eligible for licensure under this chapter, the pilot freestanding emergency room shall be located at least fifteen (15) miles from the nearest hospital-based emergency room in any rural community where the federal CMMS has previously designated as a medically underserved area in a county without emergency hospital care that is open twenty-four (24) hours a day, or a county with less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) residents, and the owner or manager is a hospital operator of an existing rural Mississippi hospital at the time of licensure.

     AMEND on line 166 by deleting "brought forward" and inserting "amended" in lieu thereof.

     AMEND on line 167 by inserting (1) before the word "The"

     AMEND on line 195 before SECTION 3 by inserting the following:

(2)  The licensing agency shall authorize no more than five (5) facilities as provided for in Section 41-75-1(k).

AMEND on line 196 by inserting before the period the following:

, and shall stand repealed on June 30, 2022

FURTHER, AMEND the title to conform.