SHB 1942: Clarifying employment standards for long-term care individual providers.
Signed into law: Chapter 224, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Fosse
- Introduced
- January 8, 2024
- Status
- C 224 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 6/6/2024. (March 25, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:01 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Provides that, for purposes of the state's publicly funded long-term in-home care program, the hours worked by an individual provider in excess of the number of hours authorized in the client's plan of care are not compensable if: (1) the individual provider is the client's family or household member of the client; and (2) the client's plan of care is reasonable.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 12, 202497 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 1, 202449 yea · 0 nay
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