Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007

To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to require screening, including national criminal history background checks, of direct patient access employees of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and other long-term care facilities and providers, and to provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers.

7/18/2007--Introduced.
Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and state background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to:
(1) require screening, including national criminal history background checks, of direct patient access employees of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and other long-term care facilities and providers; and
(2) prohibit hiring of abusive workers. Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to ensure that the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System of the FBI has the capacity to store and retrieve fingerprints from its database. Provides that, in the case where a direct patient access employee is convicted of a crime following the initial national criminal history background check, and the employee's fingerprint matches the prints on file with the FBI, the FBI shall inform the state law enforcement department in order for the state to inform the skilled nursing facility, nursing facility, or long-term care facility or provider of such conviction.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Tim Mahoney [D, FL-16]
• and 6 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Nancy Boyda [D, KS-2]
  • Rep. André Carson [D, IN-7]
  • Rep. Rahm Emanuel [D, IL-5]
  • Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
  • Rep. Ron Klein [D, FL-22]
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D, CA-16]
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Committees

• House Judiciary
• 4 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Judiciary
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.3078

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
July 18, 2007

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• Aug 10, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
• Jul 18, 2007: Referred to House Judiciary
• Jul 18, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Jul 18, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jul 18, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Jul 18, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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.
• Introduced on Jul 18, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• S.1577

Related Issue Areas:

• Health policy
• Aged
• Criminal justice
• Criminal justice information
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• Data banks
• Elder abuse
• Employee selection
• Federal-state relations
• Fingerprints
• Government information
• Identification of criminals
• Labor
• Long-term care
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medical personnel
• Medicare
• Medicine
• Nursing homes
• Personnel records
• State and local government
• Technology
• Welfare

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