Massachusetts 2023-2024 Regular Session

Massachusetts Senate Bill S397 Compare Versions

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2	2	SENATE DOCKET, NO. 877 FILED ON: 1/18/2023
3	3	SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 397
4	4	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
5	5	_________________
6	6	PRESENTED BY:
7	7	Pavel M. Payano
8	8	_________________
9	9	To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
10	10	Court assembled:
11	11	The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
12	12	An Act to improve infection control in Massachusetts home care.
13	13	_______________
14	14	PETITION OF:
15	15	NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :Pavel M. PayanoFirst EssexJoanne M. ComerfordHampshire, Franklin and Worcester1/30/2023Jack Patrick Lewis7th Middlesex1/30/2023Michael O. MooreSecond Worcester2/2/2023Vanna Howard17th Middlesex2/8/2023Michael D. BradySecond Plymouth and Norfolk2/21/2023James B. EldridgeMiddlesex and Worcester2/21/2023Sal N. DiDomenicoMiddlesex and Suffolk3/9/2023 1 of 2
16	16	SENATE DOCKET, NO. 877 FILED ON: 1/18/2023
17	17	SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 397
18	18	By Mr. Payano, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 397) of Pavel M. Payano, Joanne
19	19	M. Comerford, Jack Patrick Lewis, Michael O. Moore and other members of the General Court
20	20	for legislation to improve infection control in Massachusetts home care. Elder Affairs.
21	21	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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23	23	In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
24	24	(2023-2024)
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26	26	An Act to improve infection control in Massachusetts home care.
27	27	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
28	28	of the same, as follows:
29	29	1 SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the
30	30	2executive office of health and human services, in consultation with appropriate state agencies
31	31	3and relevant public stakeholders, shall develop and implement a mandatory infection control
32	32	4training program for all new and incumbent personal care attendants, as defined in section 70 of
33	33	5said chapter 118E, and all individual employees of home care agencies who provide home care
34	34	6services to a consumer in the consumer’s residence.
35	35	7 For purposes of this act, a home care agency shall be an entity or organization, however
36	36	8organized and whether conducted for profit or not for profit, that is owned, operated, maintained
37	37	9or advertised for the purpose of providing home care services in residential settings for
38	38	10compensation, provided, however, that home care agency shall not include an entity operated by
39	39	11either the federal government or the commonwealth providing home care services; an entity that
40	40	12limits its business exclusively to the provision of house cleaning services; an aging service 2 of 2
41	41	13access points or ASAP entity as defined in section 4B of chapter 19A; a hospice program
42	42	14licensed under section 57D of chapter 111; or an adult foster care program regulated under 130
43	43	15CMR 408.
44	44	16 (b) The executive office shall establish contracts with labor-management training funds,
45	45	17community colleges, and other entities capable of conducting the training program and shall
46	46	18ensure the training program is implemented in a manner that is coordinated with the work of
47	47	19other state agencies and public and private entities involved in health care workforce training,
48	48	20recruitment, and retention.
49	49	21 SECTION 2. The executive office of health and human services shall establish the
50	50	22mandatory infection control and public health training program as outlined above no later than
51	51	23180 days from passage of this Act.