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AMENDMENT NO 2 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

House Bill No.  569

BY: Senator(s) McMahan, Suber

     AMEND by inserting the following language as a new section after line 1629 and renumbering the following section(s):

     SECTION *.  The following shall be codified as Section 41-20-12, Mississippi Code of 1972:

41-20-12.  If any health care facility relinquished its certificate of need or license for inpatient psychiatric services, due to the facility converting from an acute care hospital or critical access hospital to a rural emergency hospital in accordance with 42 CFR Section 485.502, the Department of Health may license the psychiatric inpatient beds to a separate entity from the rural emergency hospital so long as the new applicant is associated with the rural emergency hospital.  The Department of Health shall issue a separate certificate of need to the new entity.  The rural emergency hospital and the psychiatric facility must maintain separation of facilities, licensure, operations, finances and governance.

FURTHER, AMEND the title to conform.