2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-5829.01 — Ambulatory surgical centers and hospital surgical suites; applicability of prior law.

Section 71-5829.01
Ambulatory surgical centers and hospital surgical suites; applicability of prior law.

(1) For two years after June 12, 1997, in counties which have a population of thirty thousand inhabitants or less as determined by the last federal decennial census, the Nebraska Health Care Certificate of Need Act as it existed immediately prior to June 12, 1997, shall apply to ambulatory surgical centers and to any capital expenditure by a hospital to increase the number of surgical suites dedicated to the performance of outpatient surgical procedures.

(2) Until January 1, 1999, in counties which have a population of greater than thirty thousand inhabitants but less than sixty thousand inhabitants as determined by the last federal decennial census, the Nebraska Health Care Certificate of Need Act as it existed immediately prior to June 12, 1997, shall apply to ambulatory surgical centers and to any capital expenditure by a hospital to increase the number of surgical suites dedicated to the performance of outpatient surgical procedures.

Source:

Laws 1997, LB 798, § 20

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska