2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 17b-351. (Formerly Sec. 19a-155a). Nursing homes: Title XVIII and Title XIX participants. Increased bed capacity. Capital construction project.
Sec. 17b-351. (Formerly Sec. 19a-155a). Nursing homes: Title XVIII and Title
XIX participants. Increased bed capacity. Capital construction project. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17b-8 or 17b-9, any nursing home participating
in the Title XVIII and Title XIX programs may, on a one-time basis, increase its licensed
bed capacity and implement a capital construction project to accomplish such an increase
without being required to request or obtain approval of the increase in services, licensed
bed capacity or the capital expenditures program from the Department of Social Services
provided that the project (1) shall not require licensure by the Department of Public
Health of more than ten additional nursing home beds, and (2) the total capital cost of
said program shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars per bed, adjusted for inflation
annually by said department.
(P.A. 89-325, S. 3, 26; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 19, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-406, S. 2, 6; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 39, 58; P.A. 98-150, S. 12, 17; P.A. 04-76, S. 53.)
History: P.A. 93-262 and P.A. 93-435 replaced commission on hospitals and health care and commissioner of income maintenance with commissioner of social services and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 and P.A. 93-435 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-406 added Subsec. (b) re deadline for licensure of additional beds, effective June 29, 1993; Sec. 19a-155a transferred to Sec. 17b-351 in 1995; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health and replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 98-150 made a technical correction to Subsec. (b) re reference to Sec. 19a-638, effective June 5, 1998; P.A. 04-76 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 17b-7 that was repealed by the same act and by making a technical change.
Cited. 235 C. 128, 131-135, 137, 139-144.
Subsec. (b):
Cited. 235 C. 128, 143.
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