Tennessee HB 142: Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, extends the Nursing Home Assessment Trust Fund by one year, to terminate on June 30, 2018, and revises certain long-term care provisions. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

Bill Text

HB0142
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SENATE BILL 185
By Overbey

HOUSE BILL 142
By Johnson

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68
and Title 71, relative to nursing homes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 71-5-1002, is amended by deleting
subsection (i) and substituting instead the following:
Any funds remaining in the nursing home assessment trust fund after payments
are made as provided for in subsection (h) shall remain in the trust fund as a reserve for
future uses consistent with subsection (h). If the funds in the nursing home assessment
trust fund are insufficient to meet all the purposes established in § 71-5-1004(b), the
bureau of TennCare shall not be required to procure additional funding from other
sources to make the payments noted in § 71-5-1004(b), but instead shall be permitted to
reduce all payments on a pro rata basis so as not to exceed the amounts held at any
time in the nursing home assessment trust fund. If the bureau of TennCare reduces
payments on a pro rata basis, the bureau shall provide notice to the chair of the health
and welfare committee of the senate and the chair of the health committee of the house
of representatives prior to making any reduced payments.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.