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Mid-March edition of Capitol Catch-Up with Melissa Sinden

Capitol Catch-Up March 16, 2018 Welcome to the mid-March edition of Capitol Catch-Up with Advocacy Manager Melissa Sinden. The text of her video is below. "I’m Melissa Sinden, Advocacy Manager for AARP Georgia with this week’s Capitol Catch-up. Only four days remain in the 2018 Georgia Legislative Session and there was a lot of activity this week. SB 351, sponsored by Senator Renee Unterman, would allow APRNs in Georgia to conduct radiographic imaging tests and would expand the number of nurses with whom a physician may enter into a protocol agreement from four to eight. This bill was passed by the Senate on Feb. 28. As a means of moving the bill on the House side, language from HB 927 was struck in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee after passing the House and the language from SB 351 was inserted and passed out of Committee. It now awaits consideration by the full senate and will need to be passed by the House again before it can be adopted. SB 406, sponsored by Senator Brian Strickland, would require comprehensive criminal background checks for owners, applicants for employment, and employees providing care or owning a personal care home, assisted living community, private home care provider, home health agency, hospice care, nursing home, skilled nursing facility, or an adult day care. This bill passed the Senate on Feb. 26 This bill passed the Senate on Feb. 26 and was passed by the House on March 15. Because it was amended in the House, it will now go back to the Senate for an agreement. Representative Chuck Efstration sponsored HB 897 which would make technical corrections to the Uniform Power of Attorney Act (passed in 2017). This bill was passed by the House of Representatives on Feb. 28 and passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 7. It is scheduled to be heard on the Senate floor on Monday, March 19. Finally, Representative Jesse Petrea has sponsored a resolution, HR 1257, which would create a study committee on the Workforce Shortage and Crisis in Home and Community Based Settings. This bill was heard in the House Special Rules Committee on March 16 and now awaits further consideration. Next week, the legislature is in session on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and we will be back with another update."Posted by AARP Georgia on Friday, March 16, 2018
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