Senior Safety Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-208
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congregate housing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Directories
Drug abuse
Drug dealers
Economics and Public Finance
Elder abuse
Embezzlement
Employee selection
Employee training
Employers' liability
Ex-offenders
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health facilities
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Larceny
Law
Liability (Law)
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical personnel
Medicare
Negligence
Nursing homes
Obstruction of justice
Paramedical personnel
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Stress (Psychology)
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Senior Safety Protection Act of 2003 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require long term care providers under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to perform criminal background checks on skilled nursing facility and nursing facility employee applicants. Prohibits a provider from hiring workers who have any conviction for a relevant crime or with respect to whom a finding of patient or resident abuse has been made. Details Federal and State requirements to conduct the background checks needed for the provider screening.
Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) to provide for expansion of the State nurse aid registry under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to collect information about long-term care provider employees other than nurse aides.
Amends SSA title XI to provide for inclusion of abusive workers in the database established as part of the national health care fraud and abuse data collection program.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration program to provide grants to develop information on best practices in patient abuse prevention training for managers and staff of long-term care facilities. Directs the Secretary and the Attorney General to establish a more efficient background check system that provides for a more immediate determination of criminal status.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide an annual grant to any applicant State to carry out this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House