Relates to imposing a nursing home purchase moratorium on those who own or have owned failing facilities

This bill (S 1999) prohibits nursing home owners or operators with facilities that received poor health inspection grades from purchasing new nursing homes in the state. It requires applicants to disclose all existing medical facilities they or their spouses own, and bars them from buying new facilities if any disclosed facility had noncompliance citations until that facility has been in full compliance for 24 consecutive months. If a failing facility is sold, the seller still faces a 24-month purchase ban and must pay a compliance fee equal to past fines. The law directly affects nursing home owners/operators with failing facilities, aiming to prevent them from expanding while unresolved safety issues persist.