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Budget Amendments - HB1800 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Sickles
Workgroup on Collective Bargaining for Consumer Directed Home Health Care Workers (language only)

Item 264 #1h

Item 264 #1h

Finance
Secretary of Finance

Language

Page 291, line 12, after "B." insert "1."

Page 291, after line 20, insert:

"2. The Secretaries of Finance and Administration shall convene a workgroup to study and provide recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly related to the establishment of collective bargaining rights for consumer directed Medicaid reimbursed home care workers. The workgroup shall review similar actions implemented by other states and associated costs as well as outlining steps to establishing collective bargaining rights for consumer directed Medicaid reimbursed home care workers. The group will include staff from the Department of Human Resource Management, Department of Medicaid Assistance, Services Department of Labor and Industry, two consumer-direct home care workers, one consumer of consumer-direct home care services, and a representative of a worker organization representing home health care workers. The workgroup shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor, Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Labor and Commerce, and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor and Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations  on or before December 31, 2021."



Explanation

(This amendment creates a workgroup to examine the establishment of collective bargaining rights for consumer directed home health care workers.)