Amendment #593 to H3400

Personal Care Worker Rate Increase

Representatives Hogan of Stow, Fox of Boston, Swan of Springfield, Gordon of Bedford, Garballey of Arlington, Kaufman of Lexington, Decker of Cambridge, Heroux of Attleboro, Murphy of Weymouth, Malia of Boston, Schmid of Westport, Puppolo of Springfield, Khan of Newton, Timilty of Milton, Cabral of New Bedford and Ayers of Quincy move to amend the bill in section 2, by inserting after item 9110-1633 the following item:

“9110-1635: For an adjustment to increase the approved program rates issued under 114.4 CMR 17.03 to provide a rate add-on for wages, compensation and/or salary and associated employee-related costs to personnel providing homemaker and personal care homemaker services to elderly clients under items 9110-1500, 9110-1630, and 4000- 0600: $2,000,000”