FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 960
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SKAGGS.
Read 1st time March 12, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 197.020, RSMo 2000, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to hospitals.
Section A. Section 197.020, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 197.020, to read as follows:
197.020. 1. "Governmental unit" means any county, municipality or other political subdivision or any department, division, board or other agency of any of the foregoing.
2. "Hospital" means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than twenty-four consecutive hours in any week of three or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity or other abnormal physical conditions; or a place devoted primarily to provide for not less than twenty-four consecutive hours in any week medical or nursing care for three or more nonrelated individuals. The term "hospital" does not include convalescent, nursing, shelter or boarding homes as defined in chapter 198, RSMo, or ambulatory surgical centers as defined in section 197.200.
3. "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company or association and the legal successors thereof.
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