BILL REQ. #:  S-1132.1 

Read first time 01/31/2003.   Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.

     AN ACT Relating to design and construction standards for a nursing home license sought for a building licensed as a boarding home in a county with fewer than forty thousand people; and adding a new section to chapter 18.51 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 18.51 RCW to read as follows:
     Noncompliance with a design or construction standard shall not be a reason to deny or revoke a nursing home license if the building is in a county with fewer than forty thousand people, and the building for which the license is sought or held is licensed as a boarding home and meets the design and construction standards of the licensed nursing home to which it was attached at the time of original construction, provided that the number of licensed nursing home beds is not increased.