Relating to: visitation of a long-term care facility resident or hospital patient during a communicable disease outbreak.
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The document format changed from a draft bill text to the final enrolled version, adding official state headers and navigation links while removing draft metadata like sponsor names and committee referral dates.
The final text explicitly lists specific compassionate care situations (recent death, end of life, adjustment difficulty) where essential visitors must be allowed, clarifying the conditions under which visitation is required.
The final text added a specific exception allowing hospitals to deny clergy visitation if the patient has not consented to such visits under existing hospital policy.
The final text updated references to federal agencies to use full names (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) instead of abbreviations.
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