CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 2380
66TH LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House February 14, 2020 Yeas 98 Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 6, 2020 Yeas 48 Nays 0
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2380 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
HOUSE BILL 2380
Passed Legislature - 2020 Regular Session
State of Washington | 66th Legislature | 2020 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Tharinger, Harris, Macri, Riccelli, Cody, Leavitt, Wylie, Kloba, and Appleton; by request of Department of Social and Health Services
Prefiled 01/10/20.Read first time 01/13/20.Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
AN ACT Relating to the home care agency vendor rate and repeal of electronic timekeeping; amending RCW
74.39A.310; creating a new section; repealing RCW
74.39A.325; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
74.39A.310 and 2018 c 278 s 23 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The department shall ((create a formula that converts into a per-hour amount, excluding those benefits defined in subsection (3) of this section, the cost of the increase in:
(a) Wages))
convert and distribute any change in the total amount of wages and benefits negotiated and funded in the contract for individual providers of home care services pursuant to RCW
74.39A.270 and
74.39A.300((
;)) or
((
(b) The)) labor rates established under RCW
74.39A.530 into a per-quarter-hour amount. This must be accomplished in each odd-numbered year within sixty days after adjournment sine die of the legislative session.
(2) The per-quarter-hour amount ((from subsection (1) of this section)) shall be added to or subtracted from the statewide home care agency vendor rate and any increase shall be used exclusively for improving the wages and benefits of home care agency workers who provide direct care((. The formula shall account for:
(a) All types of)), and for paying any resulting change in required employer contributions or premiums.
(3) When determining the per-quarter-hour amount, the department must include:
(a) The changes to wages, benefits, and compensation negotiated and funded each biennium, including but not limited to:
(i) ((Regular))Wages;
(ii) Benefit pay, such as vacation, sick, and holiday pay;
(iii) ((Taxes on wages/benefit pay;
(iv))) Mileage; ((and
(v)))(iv) Contributions to a training partnership;
(v) Contributions to the health benefit trust; and
(vi) Contributions to the defined contribution retirement trust; and
(b) The ((increase))change in the average costs((of worker's compensation for))experienced by medicaid contracted home care agencies ((and application of the increases identified in (a) of this subsection to all hours required to be paid, including travel time, of direct service workers under the wage and hour laws and associated employer taxes.
(3) The contribution rate for health care benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision benefits, for eligible agency home care workers shall be paid by the department to home care agencies at the same rate as negotiated and funded in the collective bargaining agreement for individual providers of home care services)), as determined by the department in its sole discretion, of employer contributions or premiums required by law including, but not limited to:
(i) Federal insurance contributions act;
(ii) Federal unemployment tax act;
(iii) State unemployment tax authority;
(iv) State paid family medical leave act; and
(v) State workers' compensation system; and
(c) An adjustment, as determined by the department in its sole discretion, for cost of compensation for work time that may not be billed as service hours, such as travel time, that must be paid to direct service workers under wage and hour laws and any related employer tax contributions or premiums.
(4) The portion of the vendor rate calculated for health care benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision benefits, may only be used for health benefits for home care agency workers who provide direct care.
(5) When establishing the per-quarter-hour amount, the department must prevent duplicate accounting for the same cost.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. RCW 74.39A.325 (In-home personal care or respite services—Electronic timekeeping) and 2014 c 40 s 2 & 2009 c 571 s 2 are each repealed. NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act applies prospectively and not retroactively.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. Section 1 of this act takes effect July 1, 2020.
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