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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1013 FILED ON: 1/17/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 640 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Rita A. Mendes |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act to improve infection control in Massachusetts home care. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Rita A. Mendes11th Plymouth1/12/2023Steven Ultrino33rd Middlesex1/26/2023David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf17th Worcester1/26/2023Christopher J. Worrell5th Suffolk1/26/2023Jack Patrick Lewis7th Middlesex1/30/2023James C. Arena-DeRosa8th Middlesex1/30/2023Gerard J. Cassidy9th Plymouth1/31/2023Michelle M. DuBois10th Plymouth1/31/2023Tackey Chan2nd Norfolk2/1/2023Patricia A. Duffy5th Hampden2/2/2023Jon Santiago9th Suffolk2/6/2023Frank A. Moran17th Essex2/8/2023Kay Khan11th Middlesex2/8/2023Russell E. Holmes6th Suffolk2/8/2023Priscila S. Sousa6th Middlesex2/14/2023Peter Capano11th Essex2/17/2023Michael D. BradySecond Plymouth and Norfolk2/18/2023James B. EldridgeMiddlesex and Worcester2/19/2023 2 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | Adrianne Pusateri Ramos14th Essex3/1/2023Lindsay N. Sabadosa1st Hampshire3/4/2023 1 of 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1013 FILED ON: 1/17/2023 |
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| 18 | 18 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 640 |
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| 19 | 19 | | By Representative Mendes of Brockton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 640) of Rita |
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| 20 | 20 | | A. Mendes and others that the Executive Office of Health and Human Services be directed to |
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| 21 | 21 | | establish a mandatory infection control training program for personal home care attendants. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Elder Affairs. |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | An Act to improve infection control in Massachusetts home care. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 30 | 30 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1 SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2executive office of health and human services, in consultation with appropriate state agencies |
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| 33 | 33 | | 3and relevant public stakeholders, shall develop and implement a mandatory infection control |
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| 34 | 34 | | 4training program for all new and incumbent personal care attendants, as defined in section 70 of |
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| 35 | 35 | | 5said chapter 118E, and all individual employees of home care agencies who provide home care |
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| 36 | 36 | | 6services to a consumer in the consumer’s residence. |
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| 37 | 37 | | 7 For purposes of this act, a home care agency shall be an entity or organization, however |
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| 38 | 38 | | 8organized and whether conducted for profit or not for profit, that is owned, operated, maintained |
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| 39 | 39 | | 9or advertised for the purpose of providing home care services in residential settings for |
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| 40 | 40 | | 10compensation, provided, however, that home care agency shall not include an entity operated by |
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| 41 | 41 | | 11either the federal government or the commonwealth providing home care services; an entity that |
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| 42 | 42 | | 12limits its business exclusively to the provision of house cleaning services; an aging service 2 of 2 |
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| 43 | 43 | | 13access points or ASAP entity as defined in section 4B of chapter 19A; a hospice program |
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| 44 | 44 | | 14licensed under section 57D of chapter 111; or an adult foster care program regulated under 130 |
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| 45 | 45 | | 15CMR 408. |
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| 46 | 46 | | 16 (b) The executive office shall establish contracts with labor-management training funds, |
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| 47 | 47 | | 17community colleges, and other entities capable of conducting the training program and shall |
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| 48 | 48 | | 18ensure the training program is implemented in a manner that is coordinated with the work of |
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| 49 | 49 | | 19other state agencies and public and private entities involved in health care workforce training, |
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| 50 | 50 | | 20recruitment, and retention. |
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| 51 | 51 | | 21 SECTION 2. The executive office of health and human services shall establish the |
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| 52 | 52 | | 22mandatory infection control and public health training program as outlined above no later than |
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| 53 | 53 | | 23180 days from passage of this Act. |
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