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H.R. 6766119th CongressHealth
Essential Caregivers Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) · 160 active : 76 Republicans, 84 Democrats
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 comm…
Where it standsBefore the House39 representatives score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- House: next
- Senate: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govEssential 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.
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Specifically, the bill generally prohibits Medicare skilled nursing facilities, Medicaid nursing facilities, Medicaid intermediate care facilities, and associated inpatient rehabilitation facilities from restricting the access of essential caregivers to residents of the facilities, including during emergency periods in which visitation rights are otherwise restricted. During emergency periods, facilities may restrict access for an initial period of up to seven days and for one additional maximum seven-day period (if the additional period is approved by the state health department). Facilities may restrict access for a total of 7 days (or 14 days with the approval of the state health department) during an emergency period.
Essential caregivers must agree to comply with any safety protocols set by the facility, which may be no more stringent for caregivers compared to those for staff. Caregivers who fail to comply with these requirements may be denied access, subject to an appeals process.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReferred to
- House Committee on Ways and Means · HouseReferred to
Subjects
No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
160 activeShow all 160 cosponsors
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
- Cory Mills (R-FL-7)
- John B. Larson (D-CT-1)
- Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-6)
- Tracey Mann (R-KS-1)
- Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19)
- Susie Lee (D-NV-3)
- John W. Mannion (D-NY-22)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA-26)
- Aaron Bean (R-FL-4)
- Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27)
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11)
- Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI-7)
- Joe Neguse (D-CO-2)
- Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10)
- Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1)
- Young Kim (R-CA-40)
- Rudy Yakym (R-IN-2)
- Jim Costa
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
