HR 952
114th Congress
House
Health
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing
Put a Registered Nurse in the Nursing Home Act of 2015
Introduced: February 12, 2015
Introduced by:
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Democratic
· Illinois
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 27, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 13, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 12, 2015
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.
Feb 12, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Put a Registered Nurse in the Nursing Home Act of 2015
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to coverage of nursing care services in skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities, respectively, to revise the standards for 24-hour licensed nursing service care which a professional registered nurse is required to provide at least eight consecutive hours a day, seven days a week.
Requires such facilities, instead, to use the services of at least one registered professional nurse to provide assessment, surveillance, and direct care to residents 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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