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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 119
March 11, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives KITCHENS, PENTERMAN, BEHNKE,
BROOKS, DITTRICH, MURPHY, MURSAU and O'CONNOR, cosponsored by Senator
CABRAL-GUEVARA. Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term
Care.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to repeal 150.345 of the statutes; relating to: transfer of nursing home
beds.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the Department of Health Services licenses nursing home
beds and beds in facilities primarily serving the developmentally disabled and
enforces a maximum limit on the number of these licensed beds in the state. A
nursing home may transfer a licensed bed to another nursing home under certain
circumstances, including that the receiving nursing home is within the same area
for allocation of nursing home beds as is the transferring home, or is in a county
adjoining that area, that the transferring nursing home and the receiving nursing
home are owned by corporations that are owned by the same person, and that DHS
reviews and approves the transfer.
This bill repeals the transfer of nursing home beds. Instead, closed nursing
home beds will be made available for distribution under procedures specified under
current law. Under current law, DHS is required to redistribute nursing home beds
within a county if the number of other nursing home beds for each 1,000 persons 65
years of age or over in the county is less than 80 percent of the statewide average
and the total occupancy level for the other nursing homes in the county is equal to
or more than the statewide average nursing home occupancy rate. Further, DHS
must publish a notice at least once per year describing the number of beds that are
available in each health planning area of the state. Nursing homes may then apply
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for any available beds. DHS is responsible for reviewing each application it receives
and making decisions on each application using criteria specified by statute and
any further criteria that DHS develops by rule.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 150.345 of the statutes is repealed.
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