# 119-hr-1683: Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act

119-hr-1683, Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Fischbach, Michelle [R-MN-7] (R-MN); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-1683
- Congress: 119
- Title: Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-02-27
- Sponsor: Rep. Fischbach, Michelle [R-MN-7] (R-MN)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Blocks a federal minimum-staffing rule for long-term care facilities.** The bill would prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing, enforcing, or promulgating the May 10, 2024 CMS minimum staffing and transparency rule and would create a 17-member Advisory Panel on the Nursing Home Workforce focused on rural and underserved areas. - Rural seniors and families: Would keep CMS from enforcing the new staffing and transparency rule, which changes how staffing levels and reporting would be set at local nursing homes. - Nursing homes and operators: Would bar adoption or enforcement of a federal minimum staffing standard and related reporting requirements, removing that potential federal mandate. - Nursing staff and policymakers: Requires HHS to appoint a 17-member panel within 60 days, hold public meetings with recordings and transcripts posted, deliver an initial report within 60 days after its first meeting, and publish annual updates. The panel must include rural nurses, aides, physicians, CMS and HRSA representatives and two state board of nursing reps.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Would block new nursing home staffing rule: mixed, low. This bill would stop HHS from putting into effect a final rule on nursing home staffing. It would apply to the rule titled "Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting" published May 10, 2024 (89…

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- 119-hr-9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1163: Prove It Act
- 119-hr-9535: Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act of 2026
- 119-hr-6766: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-1683 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1683)

## Related
- [119-hr-9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9237)
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-1163: Prove It Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1163)
- [119-hr-9535: Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9535)
- [119-hr-6766: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6766)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1683 (as of 2026-04-21).