HCAOA members in Ohio recently participated in a meeting to discuss proposed legislation requiring licensure for Ohio’s medical and non-medical home care services. HCAOA decided to support current legislative language, rather than to propose additional specific services at this time. Click here to read the letter HCAOA sent to Representative Ginter.  During the last legislative session, the Nevada Legislature made several efforts to increase the state minimum wage. One such effort was Assembly Joint Resolution No. 10 of the 80th Legislative Session (AJR 10). If successful, this proposed constitutional amendment would eliminate the two-tiered minimum wage system introduced by ballot initiative in 2006, and establish a single $12 minimum wage for all Nevada employees. This month, the Nevada Legislature passed the proposed amendment a second time, providing the two successive approvals necessary to place the amendment on the 2022 ballot. read more
 On July 1, some 6,000 individuals with brain injuries in Michigan may be faced with finding another way to receive care and support because of a major change to the state’s no fault auto insurance law. This reform will slash home care provider rates to 55% less than what providers received back in 2019. HCAOA urges its members in Michigan to let their voices be heard now on this legislation! This is part of the reform that had bi-partisan support, and was signed into law in 2019 by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The Michigan State Legislature is considering legislation that will address this concern. The time is NOW to write to your representatives about HB4486/SB314!
 The state Senate passed House Bill 6100, giving final legislative approval to legislation expanding background checks that home care agencies will be required to conduct on prospective employees. Chapter leadership worked closely with members of the General Law Committee and Department of Consumer Protection officials to ensure the bill met the concerns of HCAs. After a significant amount of testimony from agency owners in opposition and advocacy by the Chapter, DCP withdrew a ban on health care terms in agency business names and advertising.
 Last week, President Biden announced a list of nominees for a number of key roles, including David Weil as nominee to serve as Wage and Hour Administrator for the Department of Labor. Weil previously served as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division under President Obama from 2014 to 2017. David Weil is Dean and professor at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Weil is an internationally-recognized expert in employment and labor market policy along with regulation, transparency policy, and the impacts of industry restructuring on employment, work, and business performance.
 On May 11, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed into law SB 5115, the Health Emergency Labor Standards Act (HELSA), which expands the workers’ compensation framework for infectious and contagious diseases and imposes new notice requirements on employers. The law adopts language similar to that contained in California’s SB 1159 (establishing a rebuttable presumption for workplace transmission of COVID-19) and AB 685 (creating notice requirements for potential workplace exposure to COVID-19) with some notable differences. read more
I am writing in response to Nina A. Kohn’s op-ed on May 31, “It’s time to care about home care.” As someone who has advocated on behalf of home and community-based care services (HCBS) providers, workers, and consumers for more than 20 years and currently heads up the largest trade association for non-medical home care agencies in the country, Kohn’s assertion that “America needs to prioritize and support alternatives to nursing homes so that older adults can lead healthier and more satisfying lives” is music to my ears!
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