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Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Reform Act of 2014: The introduction of legislative measures, whether state or federal, is generally prompted by a number of different reasons, and California recently demonstrated one such example – the desire to solve or remedy a serious problem.
Last week, 14 bills were proposed to be introduced by state legislators to overhaul California’s residential care facilities for the elderly [“RCFEs”] following an investigative series published in September of 2013 by the U-T San Diego regarding fatalities in San Diego County caused by neglect and state regulatory issues. Some of the legislated solutions proposed in these 14 bills, which are sponsored by the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform [“CANHR”], are summarized at the CANHR website .
If these California bills progress successfully through their legislative process, we will be including them in our annual Compendium of Notable Legislation to be published at the end of this year.
2013 Federal Legislation Stats: A report published by the Sunlight Foundation noted that while only 15 Senate bills and 41 House bills became law in 2013, Congress was less partisan than commonly believed. There were a total 5,584 bills from both chambers introduced in 2013, with six subjects as the main focus for at least 50% of them: health, armed forces/national security, taxation, public lands/natural resources, government operations/politics and education. At the other end of the scale, low priority issues were social sciences and history, civil rights and liberties/minority issues, families, and social welfare. The report included a link to a list of all bill subjects and their frequency by chamber.
With regards to bipartisanship, the Sunlight report noted that approximately 40 percent of the 2013 bills attracted “at least some bipartisan support (in that less than 90 percent of sponsors are of a single party).”
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