H.R. 8568 · 116th Congress
PREPARE LTC Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Bill Pascrell
- Introduced
- 2020-10-09
- Latest action
- 2020-10-09 · Introduced in House
Summary
Promoting Restoration of Emergency Preparedness and Advancing Response to Epidemics in Long-Term Care Act or the PREPARE LTC Act
This bill provides statutory authority for certain infection control and emergency preparedness requirements for Medicare skilled nursing facilities and Medicaid nursing facilities, and expands certain requirements to apply to other infectious disease outbreaks beyond COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).