HB 108 / SB 118 PED Safekeeper Health Care Cost Recovery Practice

House Primary Sponsors: Rep. Craig Horn (R-Union), Rep. Marvin Lucas (R-Cumberland)

Senate Primary Sponsors: Sen. Brent Jackson (R- Duplin), Sen. Joyce Kraweic (R-Forsyth), Sen. Deanna Ballard (R-Ashe)

Bill Summary

This bill would improve data collection and cost recovery practices for health care services for Safekeepers.

The bill would require the Department of Public Safety, Health Services Section to maintain records of prisoners transfer processes. The data would include the following:

  • Dates of health services
  • Health services provided with corresponding charges
  • Date determined prisoner no longer needs health services

The bill would also put an initial time limitation period of 15 days on a medical or mental health treatment for a county jail prisoner.

The bill states that if the sheriff seeks to extend the order beyond the 15 day period, the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice conduct an assessment of treatment and venue needs. A health provider would then make the determination of when the prisoner can be returned to prison safely.

The bill would also require DPS to determine the prisoner’s eligibility in Medicaid enrollment to be used for health care services.

Bill Movement

House

This bill was filed on February 19, 2019.

This bill was passed in the House Judiciary Committee on February 27, 2019.

This bill was passed in the House Rules Committee on March 25, 2019 .

This bill was placed on the House Calendar on March 27, 2019, but the bill was withdrawn and rereferred to House Finance on April 10, 2019.

This bill passed the House Finance Committee on April 10, 2019.

This bill passed in the House Rules Committee on April 28, 2019

This bill passed on the House floor on May 7, 2019 and will now move to the Senate

The House version of this bill passed Senate Judiciary on June 25, 2019.

The House version of this bill passed Senate Rules on June 26, 2019.

This bill was withdrawn from the Senate calendar on July 8, 2019.

This bill was recalendared in the Senate for July 9, 2019.

This bill passed in the Senate on July 10, 2019.

This bill passed the House on July 11, 2019.

This bill will now be sent to Governor Cooper.

Senate

This bill was filed on February 21, 2019.

This bill was referred to the following committees:

  • Health – This bill passed on April 18, 2019.
  • Judiciary – This bill passed on May 1, 2019.
  • Rules – This bill passed April 2, 2019.

This bill passed on the Senate floor on May 6, 2019.