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S486 • 2025

An Act to ensure resident safety within assisted living facilities

An Act to ensure resident safety within assisted living facilities

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Sponsor
Mark C. Montigny
Last action
2026-04-01
Official status
Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to ensure resident safety within assisted living facilities

An Act to ensure resident safety within assisted living facilities By Mr.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to ensure resident safety within assisted living facilities By Mr.
  • Montigny, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No.
  • 486) of Mark C.
  • Montigny for legislation for the promulgation of regulations to ensure resident safety within assisted living facilities.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-01 Senate

    Accompanied by S469

  2. 2026-04-01 Senate

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means

  3. 2026-01-15 Senate

    Reporting date extended to Tuesday March 10, 2026

  4. 2025-06-27 Joint

    Referred, pursuant to an order adopted by the two branches, to the committee on Aging and Independence

  5. 2025-04-29 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 05/12/2025 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1

  6. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Referred to the committee on Elder Affairs

  7. 2025-02-27 House

    House concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act to ensure resident safety within assisted living facilities
By Mr. Montigny, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 486) of Mark C. Montigny for legislation for the promulgation of regulations to ensure resident safety within assisted living facilities. Elder Affairs.
Status:
Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill S.486

Chapter 19D of the General Laws, as amended by chapter 197 of the acts of 2024, is hereby amended by inserting after section 19 the following section:-

Section 20.

(a) Each assisted living residence shall ensure twenty-four hour per day coverage of at least one on-site AED provider, as defined by section 12V½ of chapter 112.

Each assisted living residence shall ensure that at least one automated external defibrillator is readily available on site.

The department shall not issue certification to any assisted living residence in violation of this section.

(b) Each assisted living residence shall not prohibit a staff person trained in the proper administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or use of an automated external defibrillator, in accordance with the definition of “AED provider” in section 12V½ of chapter 112, from administering such emergency assistance to a resident who does not have a documented or clearly visible do not resuscitate order.

An assisted living residence may require documentation of proper training from such staff person before such person is permitted to render emergency care in the facility.

An assisted living residence may prohibit a staff person not adequately trained in the proper administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or use of an automated external defibrillator from administering such emergency assistance to a resident.

Such facility shall not retaliate against any trained staff person for rendering emergency assistance, including but not limited to, threatened suspension, demotion or loss of employment.

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