An Act relative to the community health initiative payment

HD 3249 waives a specific community health initiative requirement for nursing facility applicants seeking to build a geropsychiatric unit. This applies only to applicants who previously had to file a "determination of need" to meet the Department of Public Health's requirement to reduce overcrowding. The bill directly affects nursing facility developers planning facilities with geropsychiatric units that would otherwise need to comply with the waived initiative. It changes the Department's enforcement of this requirement for those specific applicants.