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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 277

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Relating to: payments to certain long-term care facilities and their staff. (FE)

Community_based residential facility Federal aid Governor Health services department of — Supportive living and treatment Nursing homes and adult care

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the governor to direct $150,000,000 from the moneys received

under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for the Department of Health

Services to distribute to nursing homes and assisted living facilities that apply to

DHS for a onetime payment. The payment may be used for purposes including

capital projects and for integration into the statewide health information exchange

system. The bill defines assisted living facilities to be community-based residential

facilities, adult family homes, and residential care apartment complexes. To receive

a payment, the nursing home or assisted living facility must ensure that no less than

50 percent of the payment provides bonuses to employees subject to limitations that

ARPA has on payments to individuals.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bernier (R) , Darling (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Stafsholt (R)

27 cosponsors

Armstrong (R) , Born (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Callahan (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Krug (R) , Kurtz (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Petryk (R) , Plumer (R) , Rozar (R) , Schraa (R) , Snyder (R) , Swearingen (R) , Tranel (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Wittke (R) , Zimmerman (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

Passed 11–4 Apr 8, 2021 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Apr 5, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Bernier, Felzkowski, Stafsholt and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Rozar, VanderMeer, Dittrich, Armstrong, Born, Cabral-Guevara, Callahan, Duchow, Edming, Gundrum, Krug, Kurtz, Loudenbeck, Moses, Mursau, Oldenburg, Petryk, Plumer, Snyder, Swearingen, Tranel, Vorpagel, Wittke and Zimmerman

  2. Apr 5, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance

  3. Apr 6, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Knodl added as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Schraa added as a cosponsor

  6. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Apr 8, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

  8. Apr 8, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Apr 13, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Kitchens added as a cosponsor

  10. Apr 13, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 4-14-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  11. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on the foot of the 11th order of business on the calendar of 4-14-2021

  12. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Laid on table

  13. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1