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Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act

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.

Introduced Feb 13, 2025

Latest action (Feb 13, 2025) 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.

Referred to
Energy and Commerce Committee Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Health
Issues
Healthcare
Legislative subjects (7)
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresDepartment of Health and Human ServicesEmployee hiringHealth care costs and insuranceLong-term, rehabilitative, and terminal careMedicaidMedicare

Summary
  • Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing, administering, or enforcing the final rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on May 10, 2024, regarding minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities and Medicaid institutional payment transparency reporting.
  • Prohibits the Secretary from implementing, administering, or enforcing any substantially similar regulation relating to minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities and Medicaid institutional payment transparency reporting.

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Sponsor (1)
26 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 13, 2025 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. · house
  2. Feb 13, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 191 — Inflation Reduction Act of 2025 (shares 7 subjects)
  • HR 1654 — CUTS Act (shares 6 subjects)
  • HR 1683 — Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act (shares 6 subjects)
  • HR 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 5304 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 3358 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018 (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 1968 — Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 1708 — Rebuild America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025 (shares 4 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 1683 — Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act · Introduced Feb 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 127 — Protection from Obamacare Mandates and Congressional Equity Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 1924 — Securing Access to Care for Seniors in Critical Condition Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • S 750 — Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act · Introduced Feb 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 1339 — Safeguarding Social Security and Medicare Act · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 8541 — Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act · Introduced Apr 28, 2026 · Cong. 119 68%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 13, 2025

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Full text

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

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. <all>

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