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S. 3492119th CongressHealth
Essential Caregivers Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) · 27 active : 14 Republicans, 13 Democrats
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Where it standsBefore the Senate3 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: 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
- Senate Committee on Finance · SenateReferred to
Subjects
No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.
How the Senate breaks down
- 3Swing 70–100
- 48Middle 30–70
- 49Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
- Ideology gap
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
27 activeShow all 27 cosponsors
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Angela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- Tim Sheehy (R-MT)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Ashley Moody (R-FL)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Ben Ray Luján
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.
