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LD759 • 2025

An Act to Increase Patient Safety in Long-term Care Facilities

An Act to Increase Patient Safety in Long-term Care Facilities

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Sponsor
Senator Craig Hickman
Last action
2025-04-17
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Increase Patient Safety in Long-term Care Facilities

An Act to Increase Patient Safety in Long-term Care Facilities Sponsor: Senator Craig Hickman Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Increase Patient Safety in Long-term Care Facilities Sponsor: Senator Craig Hickman Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-17 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-04-14 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-04-10 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-04-10 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-02-25 House

    The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES . In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. 2025-02-25 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Increase Patient Safety in Long-term Care Facilities
Sponsor:
Senator Craig Hickman
Reference committee:
Health and Human Services
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 759
S.P. 298 In Senate, February 25, 2025
An Act to Increase Patient Safety in Long-term Care Facilities
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator HICKMAN of Kennebec.

Page 1 - 132LR0046(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1834 is enacted to read:
3§1834. Side rails for beds in long-term care facilities
4 A long-term care facility shall equip a resident's bed with side rails if the resident or
5 the resident's legal guardian requests side rails or if side rails are necessary for the safety
6 of the resident. For purposes of this section, "long-term care facility" has the same meaning
7 as in section 2421-A, subsection 25.
8SUMMARY
9 This bill requires a long-term care facility to equip a resident's bed with side rails if the
10 resident or the resident's legal guardian requests side rails or if side rails are necessary for
11 the safety of the resident.
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