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MI SB0790

MI SB0790
Health: home health care; home help caregiver program; provide for. Creates new act.


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Introduced
03/14/2024
In Committee
09/25/2024
Crossed Over
06/26/2024
Passed
09/25/2024
Dead
Signed/Enacted/Adopted
10/09/2024

Introduced Session

102nd Legislature

Bill Summary

AN ACT to create the home help caregiver council and to prescribe its powers and duties; to designate certain individuals as public employees for certain purposes; to require collective bargaining of certain terms and conditions of employment for certain public employees; to provide for the mediation and arbitration of grievances; to provide for the deduction of wages; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities.

AI Summary

This bill creates the Home Help Caregiver Council within the Department of Health and Human Services. The Council is responsible for providing training and educational opportunities for individual home health caregivers, maintaining a registry of qualified caregivers, and serving as a communications hub for the home health caregiver workforce. The bill also designates individual home health caregivers as public employees solely for the purpose of collective bargaining, allowing them to choose a bargaining representative to negotiate terms and conditions of employment with the Department. The bill outlines the Council's structure, powers, and duties, and establishes procedures for collective bargaining and dispute resolution between the Department and the bargaining representative.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance

Sponsors (1)

Last Action

Assigned Pa 0144'24 (on 10/09/2024)

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