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State of South Dakota  
NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2019  

282B0287   SENATE BILL   NO.  61  

Introduced by:    Senators Steinhauer, Blare, Bolin, Cronin, Curd, DiSanto, Foster, Greenfield (Brock), Jensen (Phil), Langer, Monroe, Nelson, Nesiba, Rusch, Schoenbeck, Smith (VJ), Solano, Stalzer, Sutton, White, and Wismer and Representatives Gosch, Anderson, Beal, Diedrich, Duba, Greenfield (Lana), Haugaard, Howard, Lake, Lesmeister, McCleerey, Mills, Milstead, Peterson (Sue), Qualm, Smith (Jamie), Steele, Wiese, and Willadsen
 

        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to provide certain provisions regarding nursing facility closures.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That chapter 34-12 be amended by adding a NEW SECTION to read:
    Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, if an existing nursing facility announces closure, an organization may acquire the existing nursing facility beds from that existing facility within eighteen months of the announcement. However, the organization shall become licensed pursuant to this chapter, before the organization may open a nursing facility. The organization's nursing facility shall be located within twenty miles of the existing facility. For the purposes of this section, the term, organization, means any individual, association, entity, partnership, or corporation.


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