South Carolina S 693: Certificate of Need

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2025-2026 Bill 693 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 10, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 693

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 44-7-170, RELATING TO CERTIFICATE OF NEED EXEMPTIONS, SO AS TO INCLUDE 
VETERAN NURSING HOMES IN THE LIST OF EXEMPTIONS.

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 44-7-170(B) of the S.C. Code is amended to 
read:

 (B) This article does not apply to:

 (1) 
construction of a new hospital with up to fifty beds in any county currently 
without a hospital;

 (2) 
hospitals owned by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental 
Disabilities and operated by the Office of Mental Health and the Office of 
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, except an addition of one or more 
beds to the total number of beds of the predecessor departments' health care 
facilities existing on July 1, 1988;

 (3) 
any federal hospital sponsored and operated by this State;

 (4) 
hospitals owned and operated by the federal government.;

 (5) Veteran nursing homes owned and 
operated by the South Carolina Department of Veterans' Affairs.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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