To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require nursing facilities participating in the medicaid program to pay, on a phased-in basis, nursing personnel at a rate at least equal to the mean rate paid nursing personnel employed outside nursing facilities.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to phase-in, over four years, the requirement that nursing facilities pay nursing personnel at a rate at least equal to the mean rate paid nursing personnel employed outside such facilities.…