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House Journal: Page 1305: Tuesday, April 2, 1996

 3   follows:
 4     1.  By striking page 1, line 3, through page 3,
 5   line 48, and inserting the following:
 6     "   .  By striking everything after the enacting
 7   clause and inserting the following:
 8     "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  231C.1  DEFINITIONS.
 9     As used in this chapter, unless the context
10   otherwise requires:
11     1.  "Assisted living program" means a program which
12   provides housing and which additionally provides or
13   arranges for services including but not limited to
14   health-related care, personal care, and assistance
15   with instrumental activities of daily living to six or
16   more tenants in a physical structure which provides a
17   homelike environment.  An assisted living program is
18   characterized by service provision which is consumer-
19   driven, flexible, and individualized, and that
20   maximizes consumer independence, choice, and dignity.
21   "Assisted living program" does not include the
22   provision of housing and assistance with instrumental
23   activities of daily living which does not also include
24   the provision of personal or health-related care.
25     2.  "Department" means the department of elder
26   affairs created in chapter 231 or the department's
27   designee.
28     3.  "Health-related care" means services provided
29   by a licensed or certified health care professional.
30     4.  "Instrumental activities of daily living" means
31   those activities that reflect the tenant's ability to
32   perform household and other tasks necessary to meet
33   the tenant's needs within the community, including but
34   not limited to shopping, cooking, housekeeping and
35   other household tasks, and traveling within the
36   community.
37     5.  "Personal care" means assistance with the
38   essential activities of daily living which may include
39   but are not limited to transferring, bathing, personal
40   hygiene, dressing, grooming, housekeeping essential to
41   the health and welfare of the tenant, and supervising
42   of self-administered medications.  "Personal care"
43   does not include administration of medications.
44     6.  "Tenant" means an individual who is a recipient
45   of assisted living program services.
46     Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  231C.2  ACCREDITATION OF
47   ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAMS.
48     1.  A program which is represented to the public as
49   an assisted living program shall be accredited by an
50   independent entity.

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 1     2.  An independent entity which provides
 2   accreditation services shall provide copies of all

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