HLS 22RS-1009 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 611
BY REPRESENTATIVE SELDERS
HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to the facility need review process for
healthcare facilities and providers
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 40:2116(A), relative to regulation of healthcare facilities and
3 providers by the Louisiana Department of Health; to provide relative to the facility
4 need review process for healthcare facilities and providers; to prohibit the
5 department from conducting facility need review without authorization by either of
6 the legislative committees on health and welfare to do so; and to provide for related
7 matters.
8Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
9 Section 1. R.S. 40:2116(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
10 ยง2116. Facility need review
11 A.(1) The Louisiana Department of Health, in accordance with the
12 Administrative Procedure Act, shall establish a facility need review process
13 consistent with the regulations for licensure and for Title XIX of the Social Security
14 Act shall implement a facility need review process in accordance with the provisions
15 of this Section.
16 (2)(a) No healthcare facility or provider shall be subject to facility need
17 review pursuant to this Section unless the House Committee on Health and Welfare
18 or the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare has authorized the department to
19 conduct facility need review with respect to that facility or provider.
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HB NO. 611
1 (b) Authorization by a legislative committee for conducting facility need
2 review as required by Paragraph (a) of this Subsection may be by favorable vote,
3 viva voce, of a simple majority of the committee's membership at a meeting of the
4 committee.
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DIGEST
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part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 611 Original 2022 Regular Session Selders
Abstract: Requires authorization by a legislative health and welfare committee in order for
the La. Department of Health to conduct facility need review with respect to any
healthcare facility or provider.
Present law requires the La. Department of Health (LDH) to establish a facility need review
process for healthcare facilities and providers consistent with licensing regulations and
federal Medicaid laws.
Proposed law revises present law to provide that LDH shall implement a facility need review
process in accordance with the provisions of present law and proposed law.
Proposed law stipulates that no healthcare facility or provider shall be subject to facility need
review pursuant to present law unless either of the legislative committees on health and
welfare has authorized the department to conduct such review with respect to that provider.
Proposed law provides that authorization by a legislative committee for conducting facility
need review as required by proposed law may be by favorable vote of a simple majority of
the committee's membership at a meeting of the committee.
(Amends R.S. 40:2116(A))
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