21SS SB 8

Senate Bill 8

Actions

Last Action	09/09/21: returned to Committee on Committees (S)
Title	AN ACT relating to the health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Bill Request Number	45
Sponsors	R. Alvarado, D. Givens, R. Girdler, B. Smith
Summary of Original Version	Direct the use of a total of $81,000,000 of American Rescue Plan Act State Fiscal Recovery funds in fiscal year 2021-2022 to address the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting essential need for retaining and recruiting nurses, nurse's aides, respiratory therapists, emergency medical personnel, and other critical medical staff in acute care hospitals and nursing homes; require distribution of funds of a minimum of $3,000 per licensed hospital bed and a minimum of $1,500 per licensed nursing home bed; require acute care hospitals and nursing homes to report expenditures to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the cabinet to report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings of Original Version	Appropriations - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions Diseases - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions Effective Dates, Emergency - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions Emergency Medical Services - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions Health and Medical Services - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions Nurses - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions Physicians and Practitioners - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions Public Health - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions State Agencies - Health care providers, appropriation of funds, emergency provisions