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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 8541 (Introduced in House) — To support the direct care professional workforce, and for other purposes. · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings and purposes. Sec. 3. Definitions. TITLE I—Improving Reimbursement Sec. 101. Additional support for Medicaid long-term care services provided by direct care professionals. Sec. 102. Additional support for Medicaid long-term care services and direct care professionals. Sec. 103. Making permanent the State option to extend protection under Medicaid for recipients of home and community-based services against spousal impoverishment.
Sec. 104. Permanent extension of money follows the person rebalancing demonstration. TITLE II—Training, Recruitment, Career Advancement, and Worker Supports Subtitle A—Improving Workforce Training Chapter 1—Grants for Supporting the Direct Care Professional Workforce Sec. 201. Definitions. Sec. 202. Authority to award grants. Sec. 203. Project plans. Sec. 204. Uses of funds; supplement, not supplant. Chapter 2—Other workforce training grants Sec. 205. Workforce investment activities grants for domestic workers.
Sec. 206. Direct care professional career advancement demonstration projects. Sec. 207. Pathways to health careers. Sec. 208. Increasing workforce diversity in allied health professionals and direct support professionals. Subtitle B—Improving Workforce Recruitment Sec. 211. Technical assistance center for building the direct care professional workforce. Sec. 212. Report on efforts to enhance the direct care professional workforce. Sec. 213. Comprehensive geriatric education. Sec. 214.
Review of the availability and quality of apprenticeship programs in long-term care settings. Sec. 215. Rural health workforce grant program. Subtitle C—Providing career advancement opportunities; assessment of worker well-being Sec. 221. Assessment of direct care professional well-being. Sec. 222. National Direct Care Professional Training Standards Commission. Subtitle D—Increasing supports for the existing direct care professional workforce Sec. 231. Mental health services.
Sec. 232. Dissemination of best practices with respect to mental health of direct care professionals. Sec. 233. Education and awareness initiative encouraging use of mental health and substance use disorder services by direct care professionals. Sec. 234. Direct care professional training grants. Sec. 235. Credit for certain health care professionals. Sec. 236. Direct Care Professional Workforce Equity Technical Assistance Center. TITLE III—Workforce labor protections Subtitle A—Long-term Care Workforce Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act Sec. 301.
Definitions. Sec. 302. Direct care professional workforce wage theft prevention and wage recovery grant program. Subtitle B—Direct care professional rights Sec. 311. Definitions. Sec. 312. Written agreements. Sec. 313. Fair scheduling practices. Sec. 314. Right to request and receive temporary changes to scheduled work hours due to personal events. Sec. 315. Privacy. Sec. 316. Breaks for meals and rest. Sec. 317. Prohibited acts. Sec. 318. Enforcement authority. Sec. 319. Effect on existing employment benefits and other laws.
Subtitle C—Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Services Workers Act Sec. 321. Workplace Violence Prevention Standard. Sec. 322. Scope and application. Sec. 323. Requirements for Workplace Violence Prevention Standard. Sec. 324. Rules of construction. Sec. 325. Definitions. Sec. 326. Application of the Workplace Violence Prevention Standard to certain facilities receiving Medicare funds. Subtitle D—Improving access to job benefits Sec. 331. Definitions. Sec. 332.
Paid sick time. Sec. 333. Notice requirement. Sec. 334. Prohibited acts. Sec. 335. Enforcement authority. Sec. 336. Education and outreach. Sec. 337. Effect on existing employment benefits. Sec. 338. Encouragement of more generous leave policies. Sec. 339. Regulations. Sec. 339A. Effective date. Sec. 339B. Collection of data and further study. TITLE IV—National Direct Care Professional Compensation Strategy Sec. 401. Definitions. Sec. 402. National Direct Care Professional Compensation Strategy.
Sec. 403. National Direct Care Professional Compensation Advisory Council. Sec. 404. Sunset provision. TITLE V—Improving oversight and accountability Sec. 501. Evaluation of implementation and outcomes.
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