Essential Access Health

• Essential Caregivers Act of 2025Congress · HR 6766 · Last action Dec 16, 2025 · Official record (opens in a new tab)Essential Caregivers Act of 2025 This bill prohibits certain health care facilities from limiting the access of essential caregivers to residents of those facilities, including during designated emergency periods.Latest action: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.Referred
• Essential Caregivers Act of 2025Congress · S 3492 · Last action Dec 16, 2025 · Official record (opens in a new tab)Essential Caregivers Act of 2025 This bill prohibits certain health care facilities from limiting the access of essential caregivers to residents of those facilities, including during designated emergency periods.Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.Referred
• Correctional Facility Disaster Preparedness Act of 2026Congress · S 3664 · Last action Jan 15, 2026 · Official record (opens in a new tab)The bill also amends the National Institute of Corrections to include members with specific expertise in incarceration advocacy, emergency management, public health, and labor representation, and mandates a public field hearing within one year of enactment to examine how correctional facilities can better integrate disaster response and recovery practices.Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.Referred
• Correctional Facility Disaster Preparedness Act of 2026Congress · HR 7111 · Last action Jan 15, 2026 · Official record (opens in a new tab)The bill affects the Bureau of Prisons, its facilities and contract prisons, inmates, staff, and oversight bodies such as the Government Accountability Office and Department of Justice Inspector General.Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.Referred
• To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish a definition of essential health system in statute and for other related purposes.Congress · HR 7145 · Last action Jan 16, 2026 · Official record (opens in a new tab)This bill would amend the Social Security Act to create a statutory definition of an "essential health system" and require the creation of an annual index to track these hospitals. - Defines essential health systems as non-Federal governmental or private nonprofit hospitals that met specific high-volume Medicaid, uncompensated care, or state-adjusted…Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.Referred

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