No. CS/CS/SB 1030
Filed under Healthcare.
Recovery Residences; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to require only a level 2 background screening for certain individuals under certain circumstances; prohibiting the department from requiring certain existing licensed service providers to admit individuals for services during the probationary licensing period if certain requirements and conditions are met, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDAn existing, compliant licensed provider that adds a new level of care or opens a new same-level location no longer has to admit patients during the resulting probationary license, so long as its record stays clean.
The exemption applies only if the provider has no outstanding violations and the department has not acted against its existing license in the past year; it does not extend the license's own fixed 90-day, non-renewable term.
Separately, when 5 percent or more of a licensed entity's controlling ownership changes hands, the new owners' officers, directors, and managing members face only a level 2 background screening, not whatever fuller check would otherwise apply.
The law also narrows what counts as a regulated "transfer" of a license to exactly two listed events, dropping the old open-ended "includes, but is not limited to" language.
AIThe department cannot require an existing, compliant licensed provider to admit patients during the probationary licensing period tied to adding a new level of care or opening a new same-level-of-care location.
AIWhen 5 percent or more of a licensed entity's controlling ownership is transferred, the department may require only a level 2 background screening for the incoming officers, directors, and managing members, rather than a fuller check.
AIThe definition of a regulated license "transfer" changes from an open-ended list to a closed one covering only a majority ownership transfer or a contractual handoff of licensed responsibilities.