# 117-hr-8805: Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act

117-hr-8805, Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act, is a 117th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] (D-VA); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 117-hr-8805
- Congress: 117
- Title: Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Introduced: 2022-09-13
- Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] (D-VA)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Ensuring Seniors' Access to Quality Care Act This bill repeals certain restrictions under Medicare and Medicaid that prohibit the approval of nurse-aide training and competency evaluation programs in skilled nursing facilities that have been subject to specified regulatory actions (e.g., civil penalties) for substandard quality of care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must still disapprove such programs for up to two years; however, the CMS must rescind the disapproval upon completion of corrective action and may require additional oversight of the program for purposes of rescission. The bill also allows Medicaid and Medicare providers (e.g., skilled nursing facilities) to access, through the National Practitioner Data Bank, disciplinary information for affiliated physicians and other health care practitioners, as reported by state licensing authorities.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4] (R-KS), 2022-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cheney, Liz [R-WY-At Large] (R-WY), 2022-09-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9] (D-TN), 2022-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

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- 117-hr-1085: To award three congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police and those who protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

## Sources
- [117-hr-8805 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8805)

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- [117-hres-881: Condemning the heinous terrorist attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyvi…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hres-881)
- [117-hr-3642: Harlem Hellfighters Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-3642)
- [117-hr-3630: Lymphedema Treatment Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-3630)
- [117-hr-2748: Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-2748)
- [117-hr-1085: To award three congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police an…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-1085)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-8805 (as of 2025-11-18).