HR 1570
97th Congress
House
Social Welfare
Extended care facilities
Fire prevention
Fires and Fire Fighters
Health facilities
Intermediate care facilities
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing homes
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to require automatic sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities certified for participation in the medicare or medicaid program, and to provide for direct low-interest Federal loans to assist such facilities in constructing or purchasing and installing automatic sprinkler systems.
Introduced: February 3, 1981
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 10, 1981
Referred to Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 9, 1981
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Feb 3, 1981
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require automatic sprinkler systems in all skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities certified for participation in the Medicare or Medicaid programs unless a waiver is granted.
Establishes a program of low-interest Federal loans to assist such facilities in constructing or purchasing and installing automatic sprinkler systems.
What's happening now
Referred to Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
4
Cosponsors
1