Amend the resolve in section 1 in the last line (page 1, line 18 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: "authorized" the following: 'only if the rule is amended to require reporting of the results of a hospital's active surveillance culturing of high-risk patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and to clarify that the Maine Quality Forum must within 90 days of adoption of the rule establish a schedule for periodic prevalence studies'

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This amendment states that the Legislature approves the major substantive rule on health care-associated infection quality data set filing if the rule is amended to require reporting of the results of a hospital's active surveillance culturing of high-risk patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and to clarify that the Maine Quality Forum must within 90 days of adoption of the rule establish a schedule for periodic prevalence studies.