Connecticut 2013 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00512 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/23/2013

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 512
January Session, 2013  LCO No. 1720
Referred to Committee on AGING
Introduced by:
SEN. KELLY, 21st Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 512 

January Session, 2013

LCO No. 1720

Referred to Committee on AGING 

Introduced by:

SEN. KELLY, 21st Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE NURSING HOME PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 19a-550 of the general statutes be amended to include transfers of a resident within a long-term care facility among those transfers governed by the nursing home patients' bill of rights.

Statement of Purpose: 

To expand patient rights regarding transfers to include transfers within a long-term care facility.