upholding a 12-line bill that began with the original purpose of authorizing the Department to do an annual inspection of nursing facilities and ended with amendments to 24 other provisions of the Public Welfare Code by giving a broad read of the original purpose, ie., regulation of healthcare programs
How later courts described this case
- upholding a 12-line bill that began with the original purpose of authorizing the Department to do an annual inspection of nursing facilities and ended with amendments to 24 other provisions of the Public Welfare Code by giving a broad read of the original purpose, ie., regulation of healthcare programs
- holding "a violation of Article III, Section 4 is dependent upon a violation of Article III, Sections 1 or 3"
- unifying subject of "regulation of publicly funded healthcare services" was sufficient to satisfy Article III, Section 3's single subject requirement
- “Since July 1996, DPW compensated both public and private nursing facilities through its [Medicaid] program under what is known as the case-mix payment system.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Judge SMITH-RIBNER
dissents.
ORDER
AND NOW, this 22nd day of November, 2006, DPW’s Preliminary Objections are SUSTAINED and Petitioners’ Amended Petition for Review is DISMISSED. Petitioners’ Motion for Class Certification is hereby DISMISSED as MOOT.