AN ACT relating to staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.
     Create new sections of KRS 216B to define terms; require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; establish minimum staffing requirements; require long-term care facilities to post staffing and the number of residents in a conspicuous place; require nursing staff to sign in and out on a document that is kept on file at the facility; prohibit long-term care facilities from admitting new residents if the facility fails to comply with the minimum staffing requirements, beginning on the second day of noncompliance and continuing until six days after the required staffing is achieved; require additional staffing based on the needs of the residents; exempt intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, institutions for the treatment of mental illnesses, personal care homes, and family care homes from the minimum staffing requirements; create a 19 member board to review staffing requirements on an annual basis; establish a civil fine of no more than $1,000 for each day that the staffing requirements are not maintained.

     Feb 1-introduced in House
     Feb 2-to Health and Welfare (H)