Indiana Senate Bill 329 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-11 - First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
Pending: Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Specifies that a screening team's identification of an applicant for nursing facility services as mentally retarded or mentally ill must be based on written medical documentation that reasonably shows that the individual meets each component of the federal definitions of the terms. States that placement in a nursing facility may not be denied if the applicant has been diagnosed with spina bifida and the applicant's health provider has provided written documentation that the applicant needs the level of care provided in a nursing facility.

Preadmission screening for nursing homes.

Sen. Bob Deig [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-11		First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2010-01-11		Authored by Senator Deig

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2010&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0329
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/IN/IN0329.1.html