To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to publish the quality rating of each nursing home of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

SA 3013. Mr. CASSIDY (for himself and Mr. Jones) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2910 proposed by Mr.
Shelby to the bill H.R. 5895, making appropriations for energy and
water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the end of title II of division C, add the following:

SEC. 2__. PUBLICATION OF QUALITY RATING OF NURSING HOMES OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than
annually thereafter, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress and publish
in the Federal Register and on a publicly available Internet
website of the Department of Veterans Affairs the rating
assigned by the Department to each nursing home of the
Department with respect to quality of care, including all
internal metrics and criteria used in determining such
rating.
(b) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on
Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and

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(2) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on
Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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