3.0.0 750 2025-12-05T21:57:42Z 2025-12-05T21:57:42Z Senate S S 2025-02-26 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/750 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-02-26T18:56:15Z 119 1683 HR 2025-02-27 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Identical bill CRS 2025-02-26 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1399-1400) IntroReferral 2025-02-26 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000463 Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE] Deb Fischer R NE N L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK 2025-02-26 True M001198 Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS] Roger Marshall R KS 2025-03-10 False Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures 2025-09-02T15:18:36Z Advisory bodies 2025-09-02T15:19:11Z Aging 2025-09-02T15:17:48Z Congressional oversight 2025-09-02T15:19:15Z Department of Health and Human Services 2025-09-02T15:18:43Z Employee hiring 2025-09-02T15:19:19Z Health care coverage and access 2025-09-02T15:17:58Z Health personnel 2025-09-02T15:18:58Z Intergovernmental relations 2025-09-02T15:19:06Z Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care 2025-09-02T15:18:47Z Medicaid 2025-09-02T15:18:28Z Medicare 2025-09-02T15:18:32Z Nursing 2025-09-02T15:18:51Z Rural conditions and development 2025-09-02T15:17:53Z State and local government operations 2025-09-02T15:19:02Z Health 2025-03-21T16:17:56Z

00 2025-02-26 Introduced in Senate 2025-08-14T15:48:58Z <p><strong>Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits administration, implementation, or enforcement of the rule titled <em>Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting</em>, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services on May 10, 2024.</p><p>Specifically, the bill prohibits administration, implementation, or enforcement of provisions that, among other changes, (1) establish minimum staffing standards for nurses in Medicare and Medicaid long-term care facilities, including requiring a nurse to be onsite 24/7 and requiring a minimum of 3.48 total nurse staffing hours per resident per day; and (2) require state Medicaid programs to report on payments to direct care workers and support staff of nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities.</p><p>Also, the bill requires&nbsp;the Department of Health and Human Services to establish an Advisory Panel on the Nursing Home Workforce. The panel must report annually to Congress, including on workforce shortages and barriers to accessing nursing homes in rural and underserved areas.</p>

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