BILL · 2023–24 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5764
SB 5764: Hospital safety net program
Concerning the hospital safety net program.
Summary
- Changes the Hospital Safety Net Assessment (HSNA) to the Hospital Safety Net Program.
- Changes how hospitals are assessed from non-Medicare bed days to non-Medicare patient revenue.
- Includes an assessment on both inpatient and outpatient services.
- Creates a Medicaid directed payment program for designated public hospitals.
- Changes the amounts of payments to hospitals from the HSNA Fund.
- Increases the amount of assessment dollars the state may use in lieu of state general fund payments for Medicaid hospital services, designating a part for post-acute hospital transitions.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedMar 27, 2023
- Out of committeeApr 4, 2023
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- June Robinson (D-38)
- Introduced
- March 27, 2023 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 8, 2024
- Companion bill
- HB 1850
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
- Versions
- SB 5764, SSB 5764
AN ACT Relating to the hospital safety net program;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: June Robinson (D-38)
10 co-sponsors (5 Democrats, 5 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5764)
- Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 5764)
- Senate Rules "X" file.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 5764)
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5764)
- WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
- First reading, referred to Ways & Means.
SB 5764 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5764 (2025–26) Ambulance transport fund
- SB 5764 (2021–22) Apprenticeships & higher ed.
- SB 5764 (2019–20) WA medical commission
- SB 5764 (2017–18) Higher education records
- SB 5764 (2015–16) Graffiti removal by DOT
- SB 5764 (2013–14) Termination actions w/ jury
- SB 5764 (2011–12) Innovate Washington
- SB 5764 (2009–10) Hort pest & disease boards