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22LSO-0081
ORIGINAL Senate
File No
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SF0023
ENROLLED ACT NO. 1,
SENATE
SIXTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2022 Budget Session
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; amending provisions related to the licensure of nursing home administrators; clarifying membership requirements to serve on the board of nursing home administrators; removing the ex officio member of the board; authorizing the board to impose continuing education requirements; providing for criminal background checks; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 7
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106(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxxvi), 7
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201(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxxi), 33
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102(a) and (b), 33
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103 and 33
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104 are amended to read:
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106.
Access to, and dissemination of, information.
(a)
Criminal history record information shall be disseminated by criminal justice agencies in this state, whether directly or through any intermediary, only to:
(xxxvi)
The board of nursing home administrators for purposes of obtaining background information on applicants for licensure by the board under title 33, chapter 22 of the Wyoming statutes.
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201.
State or national criminal history record information.
(a)
The following persons shall be required to submit to fingerprinting in order to obtain state and national criminal history record information:
(xxxi)
All persons applying for licensure to the board of nursing home administrators under title 33, chapter 22 of the Wyoming statutes.
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102.
Board of nursing home administrators created; composition; appointment; removal; qualifications and terms of members.
(a)
The Wyoming state board of nursing home administrators is created to consist of five (5) members appointed by the governor.
The director of the department of health, or his designee, who is a member of a health profession concerned with the care of the chronically ill or aged patient, shall serve as an ex officio member of the board but shall not vote.
The governor may remove any member he appoints as provided in W.S. 9
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202.
(b)
One (1) appointee shall hold the degree of doctor of medicine and be licensed to practice medicine in Wyoming. One (1) appointee shall be a registered nurse duly licensed to practice professional nursing in Wyoming, who is not employed by a nursing home. One (1) appointee shall be a consumer representative selected from the general public. The remaining two (2) appointees shall each be
and shall each maintain employment as
an operator
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administrator of a nursing home within Wyoming, and have two (2) years' experience as a nursing home operator
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administrator within Wyoming.
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103.
License; issuance; qualifications; waiver of additional qualifications.
The board shall have authority to issue licenses to qualified persons as nursing home administrators. No license shall be issued to a person as a nursing home administrator unless he shall have submitted evidence satisfactory to the board of his ability to supervise a nursing home.
For purposes of carrying out this section, fingerprints and other information necessary for a criminal
history record background check under W.S. 7
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201 shall be provided to the board.
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104.
License; annual fee; expiration; continuing education.
Each person licensed as a nursing home administrator shall be required to pay an annual license fee in an amount to be fixed by the board pursuant to W.S. 33
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201. Each such license shall expire on the thirty
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first day of December following issuance, and shall be renewable for a calendar year, upon payment of the annual license fee.
Application for renewal shall be accompanied by evidence satisfactory to the board of completion of continuing education requirements as established by rule of the board.
Section 2
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The board of nursing home administrators shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement this act on or before July 1, 2022.
Section 3.
(a)
Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2022.
(b)
Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.
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