[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 177 (Tuesday, December 8, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H9062-H9063]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     PROVIDING FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE ENFORCEMENT INSTRUCTION ON 
    SUPERVISION REQUIREMENTS FOR OUTPATIENT THERAPEUTIC SERVICES IN 
               CRITICAL ACCESS AND SMALL RURAL HOSPITALS

  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Ways and Means be 
discharged from further consideration of the bill (S. 1461) to provide 
for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision 
requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and 
small rural hospitals through 2015, and ask for its immediate 
consideration in the House.

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  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                                S. 1461

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF ENFORCEMENT INSTRUCTION ON 
                   SUPERVISION REQUIREMENTS FOR OUTPATIENT 
                   THERAPEUTIC SERVICES IN CRITICAL ACCESS AND 
                   SMALL RURAL HOSPITALS THROUGH 2015.

       Section 1 of Public Law 113-198 is amended--
       (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``and 2015'' after 
     ``2014''; and
       (2) by striking ``calendar year 2014'' and inserting 
     ``calendar years 2014 and 2015''.

  The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third 
time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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