This bill addresses congregate care programs. This bill: - requires the Department of Health and Human Services (department) to take reasonable effort to determine, within seven days after receiving a completed report about an individual from the Bureau of Criminal Identification, whether to grant an application for direct patient access; - disallows the department from:restricting or prohibiting new admissions at a congregate care program on the sole basis that the program is operating under a conditional license; orrestricting or altering the rights of a congregate care program on the basis that the program or facility has filed an adjudicative proceeding or appeal, or that an adjudicative proceeding or appeal is pending; - requires the department, in certain circumstances, to:inspect a congregate care program;provide notice to a congregate care program; or remove restrictions and conditions on a congregate care program's license; and - makes technical changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 26B-2-240, 26B-2-703