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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 154

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Relating to: requiring allowance for health care providers to refer individuals to aging and disability resource centers for options counseling.

Health services department of — Supportive living and treatment Medical service 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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Health Services to allow a health care

provider to send communications to a patient referring the patient to an aging and

disability resource center or to the website of an ADRC or DHS for information

regarding long-term care options counseling. The bill also requires DHS to make a

long-term care options counseling referral letter available on its website for use by

health care providers. ADRCs provide information on various programs, counsel on

available options, and assist individuals in applying for certain programs and

benefits, including participation in the Family Care program, which provides

community-based, long-term care services for frail elders and adults with physical,

developmental, or intellectual disabilities. Options counseling is a decision support

service intended to empower older adults, adults with disabilities, and their families

and caregivers to make informed decisions about current or future long-term care

choices.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , Marklein (R) , Wimberger (R)

12 cosponsors

Behnke (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Dittrich (R) , Donovan (R) , Goeben (R) , Gundrum (R) , Kitchens (R) , Macco (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Spiros (R) , Tittl (R)

Full history

  1. Apr 3, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Cowles, Wimberger and Marklein; cosponsored by Representatives Goeben, Macco, Behnke, Brandtjen, Dittrich, Donovan, Gundrum, Kitchens, Mursau, O'Connor, Spiros and Tittl

  2. Apr 3, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1