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Requiring joint training sessions for nursing home inspectors and nursing facilities related to skilled nursing and therapy services
Sponsored by Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 4, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeMarch 11, 2025
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Health and Human Services must hold at least one training session for nursing facility inspectors and the facilities themselves. This training focuses on rules that say insurance coverage for nursing and therapy depends on a person's need for care rather than how much they might improve.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the department of health and human services to provide at least one joint training session for nursing facility inspectors and nursing facilities related to the settlement agreement approved by the court on January 1, 2013, in Jimmo v. Sebelius, No. 5:11-CV-17 (D. Vt.). The settlement agreement clarifies the policy of the federal centers for Medicare and Medicaid of the United States department of health and human services that coverage of skilled nursing and therapy in a skilled nursing facility, a home health setting, or an outpatient therapy setting relies on a beneficiary’s need for skilled care, not the beneficiary’s potential for improvement.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 15, 2026. It hasn’t reported yet.
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