FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 316
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR DOLAN.
Offered April 13, 2005.
Senate Substitute adopted, April 13, 2005.
Taken up for Perfection April 13, 2005. Bill declared Perfected and Ordered Printed, as amended.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1081S.05P
AN ACT
To repeal section 197.121, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to specialty hospitals.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 197.121, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 197.121 to read as follows:
197.121. The department of health and senior services shall not license any entity as a hospital, as the term "hospital" is defined in section 197.020, that is devoted primarily or exclusively to surgical procedures, patients with a cardiac condition, patients with an orthopedic condition, or any other specialized category of patients or cases as may be determined by the director of the department. Nothing in this section shall prohibit licensure or certification of any entity as a hospital that is devoted primarily to care and treatment of children under the age of eighteen years, psychiatric patients, or patients undergoing rehabilitation care or to long-term care hospitals meeting the requirements described in 42 CFR Sec. 412.23(e). The provisions of this section shall expire, and be of no effect, on and after August 28, [2005] 2007. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any entity located in any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants, any county of the first classification with more than seventy-three thousand seven hundred but fewer than seventy-three thousand eight hundred inhabitants, any county of the first classification with more than one hundred eighty-four thousand but fewer than one hundred eighty-eight thousand inhabitants, or any county of the first classification with more than eighty-two thousand but fewer than eighty-two thousand one hundred inhabitants.