Long-term Care legislation

Our top legislative priorities for the 2026 session: H5169/H5170 

TBD: Supporting Resident & Family Councils in Assisted Living, (Donovan/Mack)

• Assisted living regulations have no provisions or protections for residents or families to form independent councils.

• This legislation will empower both residents and families to form and sustain councils to advocate for improvements in the quality of their care and quality of life

TBD: Supporting Family Councils in Nursing Homes (Donovan/Mack)

• Nursing home regulations give families of residents the right to form councils to advocate for their loved ones, but do not provide any way for them to build and sustain the councils. (ie. those starting a council have no way to reach other families and to notify them of upcoming meetings.)

• This legislation will help empower long-term care residents and their families/care-partners to form councils to advocate together to ensure that all residents receive the best possible care and quality of life.

SB 2104 / HR 7059: Making an appropriation of $100,000 to the RI State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (Sen.Tikoian/Rep. Slater)

• HTBD: Nursing Home Ownership Transparency and Equity Extraction Limit (RIDOH) (Rep. Speakman)

• HTBD: Transparency in Care Staff Hiring (Rep. Knight/TBD)

• TBD/SB2084: Increase the Medicaid Personal Needs Allowance for Nursing Home Residents to $100/month (TBD/LaMountain)