Long-term Care
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
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Relating To Long-term Care. [HB-2224]
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Requires the Executive Office on Aging, in coordination with the State Health Planning and Development Agency, to create a comprehensive long-term care plan to accomplish certain long-term care policy goals that ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. Establishes and appropriates funds for one long-term care planner position within the Executive Office on Aging to oversee the development and implementation of the long-term care plan. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to submit a report to the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama
Act 159, On 07/01/2024 (gov. Msg. No. 1260). on 07/02/2024
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Gettr Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Long-term Care. [SB-2343]
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Requires the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals that, when implemented, ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. Establishes a long-term care planner position within the EOA to oversee the development and implementation of the long-term care master plan. Requires the EOA to submit a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates funds.
Sponsored by: Sen. Henry J.C. Aquino
Passed First Reading. on 01/19/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Department of Aging - Long-Term Care Insurance - Study [HB-349]
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[Senior Citizens ]
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Requiring the Department of Aging to contract with an independent consultant to complete an insurance study on public and private options for leveraging resources to help individuals prepare for long-term care services and support needs; and requiring the Department to submit an interim report by December 31, 2024 summarizing the progress of the study and a final report by December 31, 2025 to the Governor and General Assembly on the results of the study.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie L Cullison
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/19/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
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Long-term care insurance; rate increases, notice requirements. [HB-1060]
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Long-term care insurance; rate increases; notice requirements. Requires an insurer providing long-term care insurance policies to issue a written notice to each policyholder of the insurer's filing for a rate increase with the State Corporation Commission within 60 days of making such filing. Additionally, the bill requires the insurer to (i) if the Commission denies the rate increase, issue a written notice to each policyholder of the Commission's final decision to deny the rate increase within 90 days of such decision or (ii) if the Commission
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy K.L. Tran
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0315) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Skilled nursing, long-term care, and community care facilities; JLARC to study capacity & condition. [HJR-22]
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Study; JLARC; skilled nursing, long-term care, and community care facilities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the capacity and condition of skilled nursing, long-term care, and community care facilities within the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Scott Walker
Continued To 2025 With Substitute In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
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Long-term services and supports screening; expedited screening and screening exemption. [HB-291]
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Long-term services and supports screening; expedited screening; screening exemption; emergency. Modifies existing provisions regarding the required long-term services and supports screening under the state plan for medical assistance services by creating greater flexibility for how screenings are completed under certain circumstances. Under the bill, any individual receiving inpatient services in an acute care hospital discharged to a nursing facility for skilled care only is not required to be screened prior to discharge from the hospital unless
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike A. Cherry
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 24 (effective 3/8/24) on 03/08/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums (Long-Term Care Relief Act of 2024) [HB-218]
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Limiting eligibility for a credit against the State income tax for certain long-term care insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer for long-term care insurance purchased before January 1, 2005, to taxpayers who are at least 85 years old with a Maryland adjusted gross income of less than $100,000 for an individual or $200,000 for a joint filer; altering the maximum amount of the credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vaughn Stewart
Hearing 2/01 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/11/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment [HB-184]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
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Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to Healthy Maryland, including provisions regarding eligibility, participation by and payments to health care providers, benefits, payroll premiums, funding, and collective negotiations with health care providers; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gabriel Acevero
Hearing 3/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums (Long-Term Care Relief Act of 2024) [SB-86]
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Limiting eligibility for a credit against the State income tax for certain long-term care insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer for long-term care insurance purchased before January 1, 2005, to taxpayers who are at least 85 years old with a Maryland adjusted gross income of less than $100,000 for an individual or $200,000 for a joint filer; altering the maximum amount of the credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Ann Klausmeier
First Reading Budget And Taxation on 01/10/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
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Long-term services and supports screening; expedited screening and screening exemption. [SB-24]
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[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
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[Disabilities ]
Long-term services and supports screening; expedited screening; screening exemption; emergency. Modifies existing provisions regarding the required long-term services and supports screening under the state plan for medical assistance services by creating greater flexibility for how screenings are completed under certain circumstances. Under the bill, any individual receiving inpatient services in an acute care hospital discharged to a nursing facility for skilled care only is not required to be screened prior to discharge from the hospital unless
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie E. Locke
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 152 (effective 3/26/24) on 03/26/2024
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Texas 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session
Relating to prohibited vaccination status discrimination and requirements for COVID-19 vaccines; authorizing administrative penalties. [SB-41]
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Relating to prohibited vaccination status discrimination and requirements for COVID-19 vaccines; authorizing administrative penalties.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bob Hall
Received By The Secretary Of The Senate on 10/09/2023
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Maine 131st Legislature
Resolve, to Establish the Blue Ribbon Commission to Make Recommendations to Update Laws Governing the Continuum of Long-term Care Options [HB-1785]
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Resolve, to Establish the Blue Ribbon Commission to Make Recommendations to Update Laws Governing the Continuum of Long-term Care Options
Sponsored by: Sen. Donna Bailey
Pursuant To Joint Rule 310.3 Placed In Legislative Files (dead) on 05/18/2023
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Maine 131st Legislature
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Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Expedite Reimbursement of Long-term Care Facilities [SB-1474]
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Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Expedite Reimbursement of Long-term Care Facilities
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeffrey L. Timberlake
On Motion By Senator Rotundo Of Androscoggin Taken From The Special Appropriations Table. on 07/25/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to training required or offered by the Health and Human Services Commission for long-term care facility surveyors, personnel, and providers and ICF-IID program providers. [HB-4694]
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Relating to training required or offered by the Health and Human Services Commission for long-term care facility surveyors, personnel, and providers and ICF-IID program providers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Candy Noble
Committee Report Sent To Calendars on 05/03/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to educational requirements for nurses. [HB-4662]
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Relating to educational requirements for nurses.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Oliverson
Read First Time on 03/22/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to changes to certain long-term care facilities' essential caregiver policies and procedures. [HB-4191]
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Relating to changes to certain long-term care facilities' essential caregiver policies and procedures.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dewayne C. Burns
Read First Time on 03/21/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the office of the state long-term care ombudsman. [HB-4220]
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Relating to the office of the state long-term care ombudsman.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Pena Raymond
Received From The House on 05/15/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to certain administrative penalties and procedures associated with aging, community-based, and long-term care service providers and the establishment of a task force to study certain rules and policies related to those services. [HB-4110]
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Relating to certain administrative penalties and procedures associated with aging, community-based, and long-term care service providers and the establishment of a task force to study certain rules and policies related to those services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Guillen
Read First Time on 05/11/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the regulation of certain nursing facilities, including licensing requirements and Medicaid participation requirements. [SB-1629]
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Relating to the regulation of certain nursing facilities, including licensing requirements and Medicaid participation requirements.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lois Kolkhorst
Placed On General State Calendar on 05/23/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
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Requesting The Executive Office Of Aging To Conduct A Study On The Adequacy Of Elder Care On Molokai And Lanai, And In East Maui. [HR-35]
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Requesting The Executive Office Of Aging To Conduct A Study On The Adequacy Of Elder Care On Molokai And Lanai, And In East Maui.
Sponsored by: Rep. John M. Mizuno
Adopted With None Voting Aye With Reservations; None Voting No (0) And Representative(s) Nishimoto, Yamashita Excused (2). on 04/05/2023