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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7254 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for infection 
control support to skilled nursing facilities through contracts with quality 
improvement organizations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 18, 2020 
Mr. KIND (for himself, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. BURGESS, and Mr. UPTON) intro-
duced 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 
A BILL 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide 
for infection control support to skilled nursing facilities 
through contracts with quality improvement organiza-
tions. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Infection Control 
Training and Support Act of 2020’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROVIDING FOR INFECTION CONTROL SUPPORT TO 
SKILLED 
NURSING 
FACILITIES 
THROUGH 
CONTRACTS WITH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 
ORGANIZATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1862(g) of the Social Se-
curity Act (42 U.S.C. 1395y(g)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting 
‘‘(1) The Secretary’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2)(A) The Secretary shall ensure that at least 1 
contract with a quality improvement organization de-
scribed in paragraph (1) entered into on or after the date 
of the enactment of this paragraph and before the end 
of 
the 
emergency 
period 
described 
in 
section 
1135(g)(1)(B) (or in effect as of such date) includes the 
requirement that such organization provide to skilled 
nursing facilities with cases of COVID-19 (or facilities at-
tempting to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19) infection 
control support described in subparagraph (B) during 
such period. 
‘‘(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the infection 
control support described in this subparagraph is, with re-
spect to skilled nursing facilities described in such sub-
paragraph, the development and dissemination to such fa-
cilities of protocols relating to the prevention or mitigation 
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of COVID-19 at such facilities and the provision of train-
ing materials to such facilities relating to such prevention 
or mitigation.’’. 
(b) FUNDING.—The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall provide for the transfer from the Federal 
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (as de-
scribed in section 1841 of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395t)) and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 
Fund (as described in section 1817 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395i)), in such proportions as determined appropriate by 
the Secretary, to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services Program Management Account, of $210,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for purposes of enter-
ing into contracts with quality improvement organizations 
under part B of title XI of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1320c 
et seq.). Of the amount transferred pursuant to the pre-
vious sentence, not less that $110,000,000 shall be used 
for purposes of entering into such a contract that includes 
the requirement described in section 1862(g)(2)(A) of 
such Act (as added by subsection (a)). 
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