Official Summaries

Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act

This bill prohibits administration, implementation, or enforcement of the rule titled Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on May 10, 2024. 

Specifically, the bill prohibits administration, implementation, or enforcement of provisions that, among other changes, (1) establish minimum staffing standards for nurses in Medicare and Medicaid long-term care facilities, including requiring a nurse to be onsite 24/7 and requiring a minimum of 3.48 total nurse staffing hours per resident per day; and (2) require state Medicaid programs to report on payments to direct care workers and support staff of nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1303 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1303

      To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from 
   implementing, administering, or enforcing provisions relating to 
 minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities and Medicaid 
             institutional payment transparency reporting.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2025

 Mrs. Fischbach (for herself, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mrs. Houchin, Mr. 
   Moran, Mr. Estes, Mr. Carey, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Johnson of South 
  Dakota, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Timmons, Mr. Finstad, Mr. 
  Tiffany, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. 
    Murphy, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Norman) 
 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

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                                 A BILL


 
      To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from 
   implementing, administering, or enforcing provisions relating to 
 minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities and Medicaid 
             institutional payment transparency reporting.

    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 America's Seniors' Access 
to Care Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION.

    Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall not implement, administer, or enforce 
the provisions of the final rule published by the Centers for Medicare 
& Medicaid Services in the Federal Register on May 10, 2024, and titled 
``Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-
Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency 
Reporting'' (89 Fed. Reg. 40876) or any substantially similar 
regulation.
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