Bill Text: VA SB653 | 2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Certificate of public need; Commissioner of Health to accept & approve request to amend conditions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-12 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) [SB653 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2010-SB653-Chaptered.html

CHAPTER 688
An Act to amend certain certificate of public need.
[S 653]
Approved April 12, 2010

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. Amendment of certain certificate of public need authorized.

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection E of § 32.1-102.3:2 of the Code of Virginia, the Commissioner of Health may accept and approve a request to amend the conditions of a certificate of public need issued to a continuing care provider registered with the State Corporation Commission pursuant to Chapter 49 (§38.2-4900 et seq.) of Title 38.2 of the Code of Virginia in which nursing facility or extended care services are provided to allow such continuing care provider to continue to admit community patients, other than contract holders, to its nursing facility beds through December 31, 2013, if the following conditions are met: (i) the facility is located within the City of Norfolk and operated as a not-for-profit and (ii) the facility's contract holder occupancy rate is less than 85 percent at the time of such application.

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