Bill > SF5391

This bill makes several changes to laws related to electronic monitoring, nursing home residents' rights, assisted living facilities, hospice care, guardianship and conservatorship, and wrongful death actions. Key provisions include: - Modifying consent requirements for electronic monitoring in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, allowing resident representatives to consent on behalf of residents who lack capacity. - Establishing a private right of action for nursing home residents to enforce certain rights and receive damages up to $3,000 for retaliation. - Expanding the membership of the licensed home care provider advisory council and requiring annual antiretaliation training for nursing home employees. - Expanding the hospice bill of rights to include the right to revoke hospice election and receive curative treatment for unrelated conditions. - Requiring registered nurses to conduct medication management assessments and monitoring in assisted living facilities, and imposing fines on facilities that provide inaccurate information to regulators. - Allowing health care agents to restrict a principal's ability to communicate, visit, or interact with others only if necessary to prevent significant harm, and creating a rebuttable presumption against emergency guardianship appointments for hospital or care facility patients. - Allowing other interested persons, in addition to the surviving spouse or next of kin, to petition the court to appoint a trustee to bring a wrongful death action.