2007 Senate Bill 596

Allow electronic monitoring of nursing homes

Introduced in the Senate

June 20, 2007

Introduced by Sen. Ray Basham (D-8)

To allow an adult foster care home resident or a resident's legal representative to use audio or visual electronic monitoring devices in nursing home rooms to monitor a resident’s care, under certain circumstances. The bill authorizes the use of recordings from such a device as evidence in a civil or criminal trial in which abuse of residents is alleged, and authorizes criminal penalties for a foster care home that prohibits or tampers with such a device or recordings.

Referred to the Committee on Health Policy