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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7513 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 769
118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7513

                      [Report No. 118-745, Part I]

To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing 
a proposed rule regarding minimum staffing for nursing facilities, and 
    to establish an advisory panel on the skilled nursing facility 
                               workforce.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2024

  Mrs. Fischbach (for herself and Mr. Pence) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

                           November 18, 2024

     Reported from the Committee on Ways and Means with amendments
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

                           November 18, 2024

Referral to the Committee on Energy and Commerce extended for a period 
                ending not later than December 19, 2024

                           December 19, 2024

 Additional sponsors: Mr. Murphy, Mr. Carey, Mr. Estes, Mr. Feenstra, 
  Ms. Tenney, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Finstad, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. 
    Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Buchanan, Ms. Boebert, Mr. Mann, Mr. 
LaTurner, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Golden of Maine, Mr. Duncan, 
  Mr. Yakym, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Graves of Missouri, Mr. 
Tiffany, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mr. Bacon, Mr. LaLota, Mr. Meuser, Mr. 
 Crenshaw, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Moran, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
 Maloy, Mr. Kustoff, Mrs. Bice, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Rutherford, 
                 Mr. Kean of New Jersey and Mrs. Hinson

                           December 19, 2024

Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged; committed to the Committee 
 of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                                1, 2024]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing 
a proposed rule regarding minimum staffing for nursing facilities, and 
    to establish an advisory panel on the skilled nursing facility 
                               workforce.

 

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting American Seniors' Access 
to Care Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FINALIZING PROPOSED STAFFING RULE.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services may not finalize, 
implement, enforce, or otherwise give effect to the proposed rule 
entitled ``Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards 
for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment 
Transparency Reporting'' published by the Department of Health and 
Human Services on September 6, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 61352-61429) and may 
not promulgate any substantially similar rule.
            Amend the title so as to read: ``A bill to prohibit the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing a 
        proposed rule regarding minimum staffing for skilled nursing 
        facilities and nursing facilities.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 769

118th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 7513

                      [Report No. 118-745, Part I]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing 
a proposed rule regarding minimum staffing for nursing facilities, and 
    to establish an advisory panel on the skilled nursing facility 
                               workforce.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           December 19, 2024

Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged; committed to the Committee 
 of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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