1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Restoration of Emergency Preparedness and Advancing Response to Epidemics in Long-Term Care Act or the PREPARE LTC Act . 2. Codifying infection control and emergency preparedness regulations for skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities as a requirement for participation under the Medicare and Medicaid programs (a) Infection control regulations (1) Medicare Section 1819(d)(3) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395i–3(d)(3) ) is amended— (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and moving such clauses 2 ems to the right; (B) by striking environment.— A skilled nursing facility must— and inserting environment.— (A) In general A skilled nursing facility must— ; and (C) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (B) Application statement For purposes of carrying out this paragraph, the Secretary shall apply by reference the provisions of section 483.80 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of the enactment of the Promoting Restoration of Emergency Preparedness and Advancing Response to Epidemics in Long-Term Care Act), except in applying subsection (g) of such regulation— (i) any reference to COVID-19 shall be treated as a reference to an infectious disease outbreak, as defined in subparagraph (C)