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hb917_00_IN
As Introduced
136th
General Assembly
Regular
Session
H. B. No. 917
2025-2026
Representative Baker
To
amend section 3712.07 of the Revised Code
regarding
remuneration from residents of terminal care facilities for the
homeless.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section
1.
That
section 3712.07 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec.
3712.07.
(A)
As used in this section, "terminal care facility for the
homeless" means a facility that provides accommodations to
homeless individuals who are terminally ill.
(B)
A person or public agency licensed under this chapter to provide a
hospice care program may enter into an agreement with a terminal care
facility for the homeless under which hospice care program services
may be provided to individuals residing at the facility, if all of
the following apply:
(1)
Each resident of the facility has been diagnosed by a physician as
having a terminal condition and an anticipated life expectancy of six
months or less;
(2)
No resident of the facility has a relative or other person willing or
capable of providing the care necessary to cope with the resident's
terminal illness or is financially capable of hiring a person to
provide such care;
(3)
Each resident of the facility is under the direct care of a
physician;
(4)
No resident of the facility requires the staff of the facility to
administer medication by injection;
(5)
The
facility does not receive any remuneration, directly or indirectly,
from the residents;
(6)
The facility does not receive any remuneration, directly or
indirectly, from the medicaid program or the medicare program;
(7)
(6)
The facility meets all applicable state and federal health and safety
standards, including standards for fire prevention, maintenance of
safe and sanitary conditions, and proper preparation and storage of
foods.
(C)
Hospice care program services may be provided at a terminal care
facility for the homeless only by the personnel of the person or
public agency that has entered into an agreement with the facility
under this section.
(D)
A terminal care facility for the homeless that has entered into an
agreement under this section may assist its residents with the
self-administration of medication if the medication has been
prescribed by a physician and is not administered by injection. In
the event that a resident has entered the final stages of dying and
is no longer mentally alert, the facility may administer medication
to that resident if the medication has been prescribed by a physician
and is not administered by injection. Determinations of whether an
individual has entered the final stages of dying and is no longer
mentally alert shall be based on directions from the personnel who
provide hospice care program services at the facility.
Section
2.
That
existing section 3712.07 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.