SLS 14RS-539 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 196
BY SENATOR MILLS
HEALTH SERVICES. Provides for health care services providers. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 40:2116.31(A) and 2116.32(A), relative to home health care2
providers; to provide for scope; to provide for licensing; and to provide for related3
matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 40:2116.31(A) and 2116.32(A) are hereby amended and reenacted6
to read as follows:7
§2116.31. Scope, purpose; definitions8
A. The provisions of this Part shall apply to all providers of home care9
services in the state of Louisiana. The purpose of this Part is to assure the provision10
of high quality home care to the residents of Louisiana this state in a coordinated11
and cost-effective manner through the promulgation of minimum standards by the12
Department of Health and Hospitals.13
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§2116.32. Licensing of home health agencies; applications; fees, disposition of fees15
A. No person shall open, conduct, manage, or maintain an agency or16
organization that meets the definition of a home health agency without a license from17 SB NO. 196
SLS 14RS-539 ORIGINAL
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the department Department of Health and Hospitals.1
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christopher D. Adams.
DIGEST
Mills (SB 196)
Proposed law makes technical changes.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 40:2116.31(A) and 2116.32(A))