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- Introduced by Rep. Ross Hunter, (Medina) (D) on January 25, 2011, to move the dates for the implementation of long-term care worker requirements regarding background checks and training back by three years, from 2010 to 2013 and 2011 to 2014 respectively. (Companion: SB 5473).
- Referred to the House Health & Human Services Appropriations & Oversight Committee on January 25, 2011.
- Referred to the House Ways & Means Committee on January 25, 2011.
- Substitute offered in the House on April 15, 2011, makes the following changes: (1) retains the January 1, 2011, beginning date for certain individual providers and direct care workers employed by home care agencies, and provides for an alternative compliance date within 120 days after the bill's effective date; (2) allows current training hours for LTC workers in residential programs for adults with developmental disabilities to be applied toward the new basic training hours; (3) delays the certification requirement for LTC workers subject to the new basic training beginning January 1, 2011, until July 1, 2011, and provides for an alternative compliance date within 150 days after July 1, 2011; (4) expands the exemptions from certification to include all LTC workers in community residential programs for adults with developmental disabilities and all family member providers; and (5) provides that continuing education is required only for those LTC workers who must, or choose to, maintain home care certification. The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on April 15, 2011.
- Referred to the House Rules Committee on April 19, 2011.
- Amendment offered by Rep. Eileen Cody (D) on May 24, 2011, the amendment strikes the underlying bill and provides for delaying the implementation dates for long-term care worker home care aide certification and revised training requirements to January 1, 2014, and additional continuing education requirements to July 1, 2014 and delaying implementation of fingerprint-based background checks to January 1, 2014, and making a technical correction to add additional sections of law that address this delay and making the sections relating to background checks take effect 90 days after enactment to account for amendments enacted in the 2011 Regular Legislative Session. The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on May 24, 2011.
- Amendment offered by Rep. Joe Schmick, (Colfax) (R) on May 24, 2011, to add an exemption from the long-term care worker requirement for 12 hours of continuing education if the person's health-related credential exempts him or her from home care aide certification. The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on May 24, 2011.
- Passed 83 to 13 in the House on May 24, 2011.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No" - Received in the Senate on May 24, 2011.
- Passed 34 to 12 in the Senate on May 25, 2011.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Comments
1) Re: 2011 House Bill 1548 (Delaying implementation of long-term care worker background checks and training) by alices on March 12, 2011This is desperately needed. The truth is, AFH and Boarding Home Workers already have a great deal of training prior to 1029. This, in my opinion, is nothing but a boondoggle foisted on us by SEIU. there is no money to implement this, and because DSHS has made the training approval process so lengthy and confusing (13 different application forms), and they are not approving in a timely manner, we cannot hire the care staff we need to care for our frail residents. Please pass this bill soon. My staff is working extra shifts and we have now had our first employee injury in 964 days, a record for long-term care. I directly attribute it to our inability to hire more staff.
Why has it taken nearly 3 months and still no passage?
Introduced in the House on January 25, 2011
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