# 119-hr-7096: Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act

119-hr-7096, Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4] (R-KS); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-7096
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-01-15
- Sponsor: Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4] (R-KS)
- Cosponsors: 10
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-21

## Summary

**Conditions approval of nursing aide training and competency programs on evidence of serious quality-related penalties or remedies.** This bill would change Medicare and Medicaid rules so that approval of skilled nursing facility and nursing facility training programs depends on whether a facility has been assessed at least $12,924 in civil money penalties or has been subject to certain remedies for quality-of-care deficiencies. - Residents and families: Would affect which facilities can host approved training programs by tying program approval to a facility's history of penalties or cited care deficiencies. - Nursing facilities and training programs: Facilities hit with civil money penalties of $12,924 or more or subject to specific remedies may face new hurdles to get or keep training and competency evaluation program approval. - Medicare and Medicaid oversight: Applies the same penalty-and-remedy criteria across titles XVIII and XIX, removing a prior approval ground and narrowing the statutory approval criteria.

## Cosponsors (10)

- Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9] (D-CA), 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3] (R-NE), 2026-02-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Walkinshaw, James R. [D-VA-11] (D-VA), 2026-02-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Mann, Tracey [R-KS-1] (R-KS), 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bentz, Cliff [R-OR-2] (R-OR), 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bynum, Janelle S. [D-OR-5] (D-OR), 2026-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3] (D-KS), 2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fischbach, Michelle [R-MN-7] (R-MN), 2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6] (R-KY), 2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4] (D-OR), 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Stricter training approvals for nursing homes: benefit, low. If enacted, this would tighten rules that let nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities run nursing aide training and competency programs. A facility would be barred from initial or continued approval if it had a civil money penalty of at least $12,924 and was cited for a quality-of-care deficie…

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- 119-hr-3514: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025
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- 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- 119-hr-4382: America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act
- 119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-7096 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7096)

## Related
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- [119-hr-979: AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-979)
- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
- [119-hr-4382: America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4382)
- [119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1422)
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7096 (as of 2026-09-21).