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Congress·In Committee·about 2 months ago

Congress Targets Nursing Home Aide Training Approval After Quality-of-Care Penalties

Also known as: Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act

Legislative Progress

✓ Filed
Review
House
Senate
President

Impacts

Mixed Impacts(4)
Medicare
Neutral
Medicaid
Neutral
Disability Benefits
Neutral
Student
Neutral

Key Points

  • Congress would change when a nursing home can run its own nurse aide training and testing for Medicare and Medicaid.
  • A facility could lose (or be blocked from getting) approval if it has serious quality-of-care problems tied to certain penalties or enforcement actions.
  • The bill sets a specific penalty trigger: at least $12,924 plus a cited quality-of-care deficiency.
  • For families, the aim is to keep training programs tied to low-quality care from being approved, which could affect staffing and care quality in nursing homes.
  • For nursing homes, the rules would be more clearly spelled out across both Medicare and Medicaid so the same kinds of enforcement actions matter in each program.
HealthcareMedicare MedicaidLabor Employment

Milestones

2 milestones2 actions
Jan 15, 2026House

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.

Jan 15, 2026

Introduced in House

What Happens Next

Projected impacts based on AI analysis

After the bill becomes law

Medicare and Medicaid update nursing home training-program approval guidance

Nursing homes and training programs would follow the new rules about when a facility can run nurse aide training after penalties or other remedies. This can change which facilities are allowed to train new aides.

Weeks to months after new guidance is issued

Nursing homes re-check eligibility to operate CNA training programs under the new triggers

Some facilities that were blocked (or at risk of being blocked) may be able to restart training; facilities with serious quality-of-care deficiencies tied to large fines or specified remedies may still be restricted.

Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act

Bill NumberHR 7096
Congress119th Congress
ChamberHouse of Representatives
Latest ActionReferred 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.

Sponsor

Cosponsors

(3)
D: 2R: 1

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