SB 115An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Human Services Code, in general powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare, further providing for personal care home and assisted living residence administrators; providing for liability for false claims, for adoption of Congressional intent of the Federal False Claims Act, for damages, costs and civil penalties, for powers of Attorney General, for qui tam actions and for civil investigative demands; and establishing the Fraud Prevention and Recovery Account.

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This version of SB 115 represents a comprehensive restructuring that removes two major components from the bill. First, it eliminates all provisions regarding personal care home and assisted living residence administrators and direct care staff, including educational qualification pathways, medication administration frameworks, foreign degree equivalency provisions, and waiver exemptions previously established in Section 213 of the Human Services Code. Second, it repeals the entire Taxpayer Prevention Against Fraud Act (Article XIV-E), removing the false claims liability framework that had adopted Congressional intent from the Federal False Claims Act, along with all associated definitions, qui tam action provisions, knowledge standards (actual knowledge, deliberate ignorance, reckless disregard), protections for whistleblowers, civil investigative demand authority, and the nexus to medical assistance program fraud enforcement. The cumulative effect is the wholesale deletion of regulatory oversight provisions for long-term care administrators and the state's false claims recovery mechanism without replacement language.