S. 4467 scored 68/100 on Quorum's complexity scale. The score measures how hard the text makes it to see what the bill does.
S. 4467 · complexity 68/100
The bill carries a complexity score of 68/100 and a high warning level. Transparency: 35%.
The bill contains 1 discrete rider. One example: Section 3 grants nursing facilities and healthcare providers access to the National Practitioner Data Bank for background checks—a separate regulatory authority unrelated to the bill's core nursing facility training program disapproval mechanism.
The bill's financial beneficiaries include: nursing facility operators and chains, and 2 more groups.
The waiver of 'previously prohibited programs' (subsection (b)(1)) appears to eliminate all existing training program prohibitions imposed before enactment, potentially allowing facilities with documented quality failures to immediately resume nurse aide training without demonstrating remediation.
Who is behind it
Filed by Mark Warner. Cosponsored by Angus King, Jim Banks, John Barrasso and John Hickenlooper.