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    <item congress="119" measure-type="s" measure-number="553" measure-id="id119s553" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2025-02-12" update-date="2025-04-28">
        <title>SOLES Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119s553v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-04-28">
            <action-date>2025-02-12</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Save our Lone Emergency Services Act or the SOLES Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires Medicare payments to sole community hospitals in Alaska or Hawaii to cover at least 94% of the reasonable costs of covered outpatient services.</p>]]></summary-text>
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        <dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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