| 1 | 1 | | 2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE |
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| 2 | 2 | | LRB-0506/1 |
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| 3 | 3 | | JPC:cjs |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2025 SENATE BILL 139 |
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| 5 | 5 | | March 21, 2025 - Introduced by Senator CABRAL-GUEVARA, cosponsored by |
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| 6 | 6 | | Representatives KITCHENS, PENTERMAN, BEHNKE, BROOKS, DITTRICH, |
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| 7 | 7 | | MURPHY, MURSAU and O'CONNOR. Referred to Committee on Licensing, |
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| 8 | 8 | | Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs. |
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| 10 | 10 | | ***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*** |
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| 11 | 11 | | AN ACT to repeal 150.345 of the statutes; relating to: transfer of nursing home |
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| 12 | 12 | | beds. |
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| 13 | 13 | | Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau |
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| 14 | 14 | | Under current law, the Department of Health Services licenses nursing home |
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| 15 | 15 | | beds and beds in facilities primarily serving the developmentally disabled and |
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| 16 | 16 | | enforces a maximum limit on the number of these licensed beds in the state. A |
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| 17 | 17 | | nursing home may transfer a licensed bed to another nursing home under certain |
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| 18 | 18 | | circumstances, including that the receiving nursing home is within the same area |
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| 19 | 19 | | for allocation of nursing home beds as is the transferring home, or is in a county |
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| 20 | 20 | | adjoining that area, that the transferring nursing home and the receiving nursing |
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| 21 | 21 | | home are owned by corporations that are owned by the same person, and that DHS |
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| 22 | 22 | | reviews and approves the transfer. |
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| 23 | 23 | | This bill repeals the transfer of nursing home beds. Instead, closed nursing |
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| 24 | 24 | | home beds will be made available for distribution under procedures specified under |
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| 25 | 25 | | current law. Under current law, DHS is required to redistribute nursing home beds |
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| 26 | 26 | | within a county if the number of other nursing home beds for each 1,000 persons 65 |
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| 27 | 27 | | years of age or over in the county is less than 80 percent of the statewide average |
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| 28 | 28 | | and the total occupancy level for the other nursing homes in the county is equal to |
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| 29 | 29 | | or more than the statewide average nursing home occupancy rate. Further, DHS |
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| 30 | 30 | | must publish a notice at least once per year describing the number of beds that are |
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| 31 | 31 | | available in each health planning area of the state. Nursing homes may then apply |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2 2025 - 2026 Legislature |
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| 34 | 34 | | SENATE BILL 139 |
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| 35 | 35 | | - 2 - LRB-0506/1 |
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| 36 | 36 | | JPC:cjs |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 1 |
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| 38 | 38 | | for any available beds. DHS is responsible for reviewing each application it receives |
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| 39 | 39 | | and making decisions on each application using criteria specified by statute and |
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| 40 | 40 | | any further criteria that DHS develops by rule. |
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| 41 | 41 | | The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do |
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| 42 | 42 | | enact as follows: |
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| 43 | 43 | | SECTION 1. 150.345 of the statutes is repealed. |
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| 44 | 44 | | (END) |
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