Bill Title: Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 88-13)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08580 Detail]

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Bill Drafts

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Amended	1969-12-31	HTML/Text	Link	View
Introduced	1969-12-31	HTML/Text	Link	View

Amendments

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