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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="1303" measure-id="id119hr1303" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-02-13" update-date="2025-08-14">
        <title>Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act</title>
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            <action-date>2025-02-13</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits administration, implementation, or enforcement of the rule titled&nbsp;<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.&nbsp;</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.&nbsp;</p>]]></summary-text>
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