(a) No department, agency or officer of this Territory shall pay or approve for payment from public funds any amount or amounts to a nursing home under any program of government aid in connection with services provided, or to be provided, an actual or prospective patient in a nursing home, unless the nursing home has a current nursing home license issued by the Department of Public Health and Social Services and meets such other requirements as may be in force pursuant to law.
(b) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to apply to the payment of government aid for construction, renovation or improvement of a nursing home or premises intended to qualify as a nursing home upon completion of such construction, renovation or improvement.

SOURCE: GC § 9955.19.