SB1400sam001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. John G. Mulroe

Filed: 4/25/2017

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1400

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1400 on page 52, by deleting line 12 through line 18; and

on page 57, by deleting line 14 through line 20; and

on page 58, by replacing lines 17 and 18 with "12-15, 12-16, 12-19, 12-20.5, 12-21, 12-21.5, 12-21.6, 12-32, 12-33, 12C-5, 12C-10, 16-1, 16-1.3, 16-25, 16A-3, 17-3,"

on page 58, line 20, after "24-1.8,", by inserting "24-3.8,"; and

on page 59, by replacing line 5 with "Act; subsection (a) of Sections 3.01, Section 3.02, or Section 3.03 of the Humane Care for Animals Act;"; and

on page 61, line 3, by replacing "property" with "property,"; and

on page 61, lines 3 and 4, by deleting "or any other applicable finding set forth by rule that is"; and

on page 61, immediately below line 13, by inserting the following:

"(e) A health care employer shall not hire, employ, or retain, whether paid or on a volunteer basis, any individual in a position with duties involving direct care of clients, patients, or residents who has a finding by the Department of Human Services of physical or sexual abuse, financial exploitation, or egregious neglect of an individual denoted on the Health Care Worker Registry."; and

by replacing line 21 on page 62 through line 4 of page 63 with the "employee has abused or neglected a resident or misappropriated property of a resident, then the Department shall notify the employee or individual of this finding by certified mail sent to the address contained in the Health Care Worker Registry. The notice shall give the employee or individual an opportunity to contest the finding in a hearing before the Department or to submit a written response to the findings in lieu of requesting a hearing. As used in this subsection, "abuse" and "neglect" shall have the meanings provided in the Nursing Home Care Act, except that the term "resident" as used in those definitions shall have the meaning provided in this Act. As used in this subsection, "misappropriate property of a resident" shall have the meaning provided to "misappropriation of a resident's property" in the Nursing Home Care Act, except that the term "resident" as used in that definition shall have the meaning provided in this Act."; and

on page 66, by deleting line 17 through line 20; and

by deleting line 25 on page 66 through line 5 on page 67; and

on page 67, line 6, by replacing "(d)" with "(c)"; and

on page 67, line 8, by replacing "(e)" with "(d)".