S.Amdt. 3052

SA 3052. Mr. CASSIDY (for himself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Daines, and Mrs.
Gillibrand) 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 FOR NURSING HOMES OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND
INVESTIGATIONS OF LOW-PERFORMING NURSING HOMES.

(a) Publication of Quality Rating for Nursing Homes.--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 Congress and
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) Investigations of Low-performing Nursing Homes.--
(1) Initial investigation.--Not later than 30 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Head of the Office
of the Medical Inspector of the Veterans Health
Administration shall--
(A) conduct an investigation of all nursing homes of the
Department of Veterans Affairs with an overall one-star
rating (as determined by the rating system of the Department)
according to the most recent review by the Department; and
(B) submit to Congress and the appropriate committees of
Congress a report on corrective actions taken by the
Department with respect to nursing homes described in
subparagraph (A), including any results that support those
corrective actions.
(2) Subsequent investigation.--If a nursing home described
in paragraph (1)(A) has an overall one-star rating (as
determined by the rating system of the Department) according
to the first subsequent review by the Department after the
review described in such paragraph, the Inspector General of
the Department of Veterans Affairs shall, not later than 30
days after such subsequent review--
(A) conduct an investigation of that nursing home; and
(B) submit to Congress and the appropriate committees of
Congress a report that includes the findings of that
investigation.
(c) 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
(2) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on
Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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