To direct the Department of Social and Health Services to raise home care agency employee compensation rates to those of individual provider home care workers. The bill also requires that benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision, will be provided to home care agency workers at the same rate and on the same basis as benefits negotiated for individual provider home care workers. See companion HB 2333.   Official Text and Analysis.

To provide that whenever increased wages or benefits are funded under the individual provider collective bargaining agreement, homecare agency hourly payment rates are increased to include the same increases. The hourly agency increases include all wage, benefit, or other compensation increases funded for the individual provider program, and also any increases in the average homecare agency workers' compensation cost. The payment rate increases account for all hours direct service employees are paid under wage and hours laws. The state pays for agency homecare worker medical, dental, and vision benefits at the same contribution level funded for individual providers. The bill as referred to committee was not considered.