BILL REQ. #:  H-1767.1 

Read first time 02/13/2007.   Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

     AN ACT Relating to modifying the nursing home certificate of bed need ratio; adding a new section to chapter 70.38 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 70.38 RCW to read as follows:
     In determining the need for nursing home beds on a statewide basis and a planning area specific basis, the department shall calculate the need for nursing home beds based on the bed-to-population ratio of forty beds per one thousand persons age seventy and older.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect July 1, 2007.