Bill > HR7994

This bill, the Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act, aims to address the growing crisis in the direct care professional workforce in the United States. The key provisions of the bill include: - Providing additional Medicaid funding to states that implement activities to improve compensation, benefits, working conditions, and training for direct care professionals providing long-term care services. - Awarding grants to eligible entities to create projects for recruiting, retaining, and providing advancement opportunities for various types of direct care professionals, including self-directed care professionals and home and community-based services workers. - Establishing a national technical assistance center to support direct care workforce creation, training and education, recruitment, retention, and advancement. - Providing grants to support mental health services and education initiatives for direct care professionals. - Creating a National Direct Care Professional Compensation Strategy and Advisory Council to recommend actions to provide direct care professionals a livable wage. - Establishing new labor protections for direct care professionals, including requirements for written agreements, fair scheduling practices, and the right to request temporary schedule changes. - Requiring employers to provide paid sick time for covered direct care professionals. The bill's overall goals are to increase the capacity of the direct care workforce, improve compensation and working conditions, and ensure a strong, qualified pipeline of direct care workers to support older individuals and people with disabilities.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7994/all-info