General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 801
January Session, 2017 *_____SB00801HS_APP030317____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 801
January Session, 2017
*_____SB00801HS_APP030317____*
AN ACT REQUIRING CLIENT-SPECIFIC EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND EMPLOYEE TRANSITION PLANNING FOR HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE PROVIDERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes to require a homemaker-companion agency, as defined in section 20-670 of the general statutes, to provide client-specific employee training and staff transition planning in order to receive Medicaid reimbursement for live-in care provided to a client in a home and community-based services program administered by the Department of Social Services.
(b) The regulations shall require a homemaker-companion agency to: (1) Inform an employee assigned to provide live-in care of the medical conditions and care needs of the client not less than twenty-four hours prior to placing the employee in the home of a client, (2) make reasonable efforts to assure the suitability of such employee to provide such care by reviewing verifiable training of the employee or the employee's prior work experience, and (3) if an employee placed in a client's home is to be reassigned or replaced by another employee, assure that there is not less than a twenty-four-hour overlap work period between an employee currently placed in the client's home and a replacement employee. Such overlap work period shall be used by the agency to provide training to a replacement employee on the needs of the client by either an employee currently placed in the client's home or the homemaker-companion agency.
(c) The requirements described in subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of this section shall not apply to an emergency replacement of an employee placed in a client's home by a homemaker-companion agency when such agency had less than twenty-four hours' notice of the need to replace such employee.
(d) To the extent permissible under federal law, the commissioner shall reimburse a homemaker-companion agency for the services of two employees whenever a twenty-four-hour overlap work period is required pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of this section.
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Social Services shall ensure that the care management plan for a consumer who directly hires a personal care attendant in the Community First Choice program includes client-specific training for any personal care attendant and staff transition planning, as described in section 1 of this act.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Sec. 2 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
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