[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 104 (Thursday, June 21, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4346]
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  SA 3052. Mr. CASSIDY (for himself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Daines, and Mrs. 
Gillibrand) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment 
SA 2910 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 5895, making 
appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title II of division C, add the following:

     SEC. 2__. PUBLICATION OF QUALITY RATING FOR NURSING HOMES OF 
                   THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND 
                   INVESTIGATIONS OF LOW-PERFORMING NURSING HOMES.

       (a) Publication of Quality Rating for Nursing Homes.--Not 
     later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to Congress and 
     the appropriate committees of Congress and publish in the 
     Federal Register and on a publicly available Internet website 
     of the Department of Veterans Affairs the rating assigned by 
     the Department to each nursing home of the Department with 
     respect to quality of care, including all internal metrics 
     and criteria used in determining such rating.
       (b) Investigations of Low-performing Nursing Homes.--
       (1) Initial investigation.--Not later than 30 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Head of the Office 
     of the Medical Inspector of the Veterans Health 
     Administration shall--
       (A) conduct an investigation of all nursing homes of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs with an overall one-star 
     rating (as determined by the rating system of the Department) 
     according to the most recent review by the Department; and
       (B) submit to Congress and the appropriate committees of 
     Congress a report on corrective actions taken by the 
     Department with respect to nursing homes described in 
     subparagraph (A), including any results that support those 
     corrective actions.
       (2) Subsequent investigation.--If a nursing home described 
     in paragraph (1)(A) has an overall one-star rating (as 
     determined by the rating system of the Department) according 
     to the first subsequent review by the Department after the 
     review described in such paragraph, the Inspector General of 
     the Department of Veterans Affairs shall, not later than 30 
     days after such subsequent review--
       (A) conduct an investigation of that nursing home; and
       (B) submit to Congress and the appropriate committees of 
     Congress a report that includes the findings of that 
     investigation.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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