S.Amdt. 2240

SA 2240. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. APPLICATION OF DISTANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR CRITICAL
ACCESS HOSPITALS.

Section 1820(h) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395i-4(h)) is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(4) Application of distance criterion.--In the case of a
facility that was designated as a critical access hospital
during 2016, and for which there was a change of ownership
during 2018, if the designation relied on incorrect
information received from a State about a road as being
secondary in order to meet the distance criterion described
in subsection (c)(2)(B)(i)(I), the facility shall be deemed
to meet such distance criterion during the period beginning
on the date of such 2016 designation and ending on September
30, 2026.''.
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