Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3078
Sponsor: Rep. Mahoney, Tim [D-FL-16]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Elder abuse
Employee selection
Federal-state relations
Fingerprints
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical personnel
Medicare
Nursing homes
Personnel records
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and state background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers. 

Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) require screening, including national criminal history background checks, of direct patient access employees of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and other long-term care facilities and providers; and (2) prohibit hiring of abusive workers. 

Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to ensure that the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System of the FBI has the capacity to store and retrieve fingerprints from its database. 

Provides that, in the case where a direct patient access employee is convicted of a crime following the initial national criminal history background check, and the employee's fingerprint matches the prints on file with the FBI, the FBI shall inform the state law enforcement department in order for the state to inform the skilled nursing facility, nursing facility, or long-term care facility or provider of such conviction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House