MO HB3412

Long-term care facilities must maintain minimum $1 million liability insurance coverage for losses from negligent or criminal acts constituting abuse, neglect, or wrongful death of residents, or alternatively maintain a $1 million segregated reserve account.

Department of Health and Senior Services must display an "abuse and neglect icon" on its website next to any facility with substantiated abuse or neglect findings from CMS, state/federal inspections, or law enforcement investigations, which remains for 36 months regardless of ownership changes.

Failure to maintain required liability insurance or reserve account is added as grounds for license revocation of long-term care facilities.

Substantiated reports of facility resident abuse or neglect must be provided to the General Assembly and Lieutenant Governor.

Care providers subject to employee disqualification who commit abuse by knowingly acting or failing to act in a manner creating substantial risk to an elderly, disabled, or vulnerable person face upgraded penalties from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony.