Delaware Senate Bill 150

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-3)
Status: Introduced on May 14 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-05-14 - Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 150, and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate
Pending: Senate Health & Social Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [HTML]

This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 150. Like Senate Bill No. 150, this Act requires included facilities have sufficient staff to meet the needs of each resident and requires dementia care services training for staff. This Act differs from Senate Bill No. 150 in the following ways: (1) it removes the definition of activity services; (2) it defines direct care, secured memory care unit, and memory care services; (3) it requires that assisted living facilities providing dementia care services to residents in a secured memory care unit create a staffing plan that ensures the facility has sufficient staff to meet the scheduled, reasonably foreseeable unscheduled, and evolving needs of residents and; (4) it charges the Department of Health and Social Services with reviewing the staffing plan during each annual inspection and during any other inspection in which the Department deems it relevant; (5) it revises initial dementia care services training requirement by limiting the requirement to individuals that provide care in a secured memory care unit of an assisted living facility, creating separate training requirements, both in terms of duration and content, for individuals that provide direct care and non-direct care to residents receiving dementia care services in secured memory care units of assisted living facilities; (6) it revises the annual dementia care services training requirement to mirror initial dementia services training requirements; (7) it establishes dementia care services training requirements for individuals employed by temporary staffing agencies; (8) it gives the Department of Health and Social Services the discretion to accept other required dementia care services training to satisfy the dementia care services training requirements; (9) it details the transferability of training between facilities and temporary staffing agencies; and (10) it narrows the scope from all long-term care facilities to only assisted living facilities.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Dementia Care Services In Long-term Care Facilities.

Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]
Sen. Eric Buckson [R]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Kyra Hoffner [D]	Sen. Russ Huxtable [D]
Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Sen. Jack Walsh [D]
Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Jeff Hilovsky [R]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]
Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-05-14		Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 150, and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate

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