Bill Text: VA HB1439 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Assisted living facilities; regulations governing staff.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-03-09 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) [HB1439 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2018-HB1439-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1439 Offered January 16, 2018 A BILL to require the State Board of Social Services to amend certain regulations related to staffing of assisted living facilities providing care for adults with serious cognitive impairments. ---------- Patrons-- Sickles and Adams, D.M. ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the State Board of Social Services shall amend regulations governing staffing of assisted living facilities that provide care for adults with serious cognitive impairments to allow an exception to the requirements that at least two direct care staff members who are awake, on duty, and responsible for the care and supervision of residents be in each building at all times when residents are present and that there be sufficient direct care staff to provide sight and sound supervision to all residents who cannot recognize danger or protect their own safety and welfare during all trips away from the assisted living facility for assisted living facilities that are licensed for 10 or fewer residents if no more than three of the residents have serious cognitive impairments.