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S. 741
STATUS INFORMATION
Joint Resolution
Sponsors: Medical Affairs Committee
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Introduced in the Senate on May 4, 2015
Introduced in the House on May 20, 2015
Currently residing in the House Committee on Regulations and Administrative Procedures
Summary: Standards for licensing community residential care facilities (D. No. 4484)
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5/4/2015 Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar without reference (Senate Journal-page 5) 5/14/2015 Senate Read second time (Senate Journal-page 20) 5/14/2015 Senate Roll call Ayes-39 Nays-0 (Senate Journal-page 20) 5/19/2015 Senate Read third time and sent to House (Senate Journal-page 15) 5/20/2015 House Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 5) 5/20/2015 House Referred to Committee on Regulations and Administrative Procedures (House Journal-page 5)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
INTRODUCED
May 4, 2015
S. 741
S. Printed 5/4/15--S.
Read the first time May 4, 2015.
TO APPROVE REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, RELATING TO STANDARDS FOR LICENSING COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES, DESIGNATED AS REGULATION DOCUMENT NUMBER 4484, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 23, TITLE 1 OF THE 1976 CODE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The regulations of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, relating to Standards for Licensing Community Residential Care Facilities, designated as Regulation Document Number 4484, and submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of Article 1, Chapter 23, Title 1 of the 1976 Code, are approved.
SECTION 2. This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Regulation 61-84 was last amended on June 25, 2010. Community residential care facilities are facilities which offer room and board and which, unlike a boarding house, provide/coordinate a degree of personal care for a period of time in excess of 24 consecutive hours for two or more persons, 18 years old or older, not related to the licensee within the third degree of consanguinity. It is designed to accommodate residents' changing needs and preferences, maximize residents' dignity, autonomy, privacy, independence, and safety, and encourage family and community involvement. The new amendments herein include the Department's Bureau of Health Facilities Licensing's effort to incorporate provisions relating to statutory mandates, medication management, meal service, emergency procedures, design and construction, fire and life safety, and overall licensing requirements for community residential care facilities. In addition, corrections have been made for clarity and readability, grammar, references, codification and overall improvement to the text of the regulation.
A Notice of Drafting was published in the State Register on June 27, 2014.
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