[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 119 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3693]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2240. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. APPLICATION OF DISTANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR CRITICAL 
                   ACCESS HOSPITALS.

       Section 1820(h) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1395i-4(h)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) Application of distance criterion.--In the case of a 
     facility that was designated as a critical access hospital 
     during 2016, and for which there was a change of ownership 
     during 2018, if the designation relied on incorrect 
     information received from a State about a road as being 
     secondary in order to meet the distance criterion described 
     in subsection (c)(2)(B)(i)(I), the facility shall be deemed 
     to meet such distance criterion during the period beginning 
     on the date of such 2016 designation and ending on September 
     30, 2026.''.
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