SF0089 • 2025

Certificate of need repeal-2.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the department of health to approve alterations or additions to health care facilities for purposes of health care and life safety compliance determinations only; repealing bed expansion limitations for nursing care facilities and hospitals as specified; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Healthcare

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Senator Crum
Last action: 2025-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on the impacts of the removal of bed expansion limitations for nursing care facilities and hospitals beyond health and safety compliance.

Repealing Certificate of Need for Health Care Facilities

The bill removes certain requirements for nursing care facilities and hospitals to get approval before expanding their bed capacity, allowing the Department of Health to focus on health and safety compliance only.

What This Bill Does

Removes the need for nursing care facilities and hospitals to seek permission from the state before adding more beds or making significant changes to their buildings.
Gives the Department of Health the power to approve alterations or additions to healthcare facilities solely based on health and safety standards.

Who It Names or Affects

Nursing care facilities
Hospitals

Terms To Know

Certificate of Need: A document that a healthcare facility needs to get from the state before making major changes or expansions.
Department of Health: The government agency responsible for overseeing health and safety in Wyoming.

Limits and Unknowns

It is unclear how nursing care facilities will be affected by the removal of bed expansion limitations.
Specific changes hospitals might make without needing state approval, beyond those related to health and safety compliance, are not detailed.

Bill History

2025-03-03 Senate
S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4
2025-02-10 Senate
S No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2025-01-22 Senate
S10 - Labor:Do Pass Failed 2-3-0-0-0
2025-01-16 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor
2025-01-10 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2025-01-06 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0475
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0475
Numbered
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0089

Certificate of need repeal-2.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Crum, Driskill, Hicks, Landen, Nethercott and Steinmetz and Representative(s) Harshman, Lawley, Nicholas, Sherwood, Williams and Wylie

A BILL

for

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 35
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906(a) is amended to read:

35
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906.

Construction and expansion of facilities; exemption.

(a)

A licensee who contemplates construction of or alteration or addition to a health care facility shall submit plans and specifications to the division for preliminary inspection and approval prior to commencing construction. Significant changes to the original plans must also be submitted and approved prior to implementation.

The plans and any changes shall indicate any increase in the number of beds.
Information submitted pursuant to this subsection shall be used by the division only for purposes of health care and life safety compliance determinations.

Section 2.

W.S. 35
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901(a)(v) and 35
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906(b), (c), (f) and (g) are repealed.

Section 3
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On or before September 1, 2029, the department of health shall report to the joint labor, health and social services interim committee on the status of construction of nursing care facilities and whether hospitals and nursing care facilities are positively or adversely affected by this act.

Section 4
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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