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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 952 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 261 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 952 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. GORDON, 35th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT LIMITING THE ABILITY OF PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS TO | |
| 19 | 19 | PURCHASE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That the general statutes be amended to impose restrictions on 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | private equity firms buying, operating or holding a controlling interest 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | in hospitals, including, but not limited to, (1) restrictions on the ability 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | of a private equity firm to lease the property back to the hospital for a 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | fee after purchasing the land rights, and (2) preventing health care 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | facilities, health care providers and health care provider organizations 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | from directly or indirectly interfering with, controlling or otherwise 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | directing the professional judgment or clinical decisions of health care 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | clinicians with independent practice authority. 9 | |
| 32 | 32 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 33 | 33 | To limit the ability for private equity firms to purchase medical care | |
| 34 | 34 | facilities and further protect health care clinicians from the corporate | |
| 35 | 35 | practice of medicine. |