SF 2305: Relating to support of direct care services and the direct care workforce, establishing a state minimum hourly wage for direct care workers under the Medicaid program, and including applicability provisions

What it does

This bill includes measures to support direct care services and the direct care workforce. DIVISION I. Division I of the bill requires Medicaid providers to comply with direct care worker minimum wage requirements.00 beginning July 1, 2030. The bill provides that the setting of a minimum hourly wage under the bill does not authorize a Medicaid provider who is paying a direct care worker an hourly wage above the required minimum to decrease the direct care worker’s current hourly wage. On or after July 1, 2031, this state hourly wage shall be increased by a cost-of-living adjustment amount as determined by applying the percent change in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, United States city average, as published annually in October in the federal register by the federal department of labor, bureau of labor statistics.

Senate subcommittee · named February 15, 2024

• Sen. Jeff Edler (R)
• Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D) · sarah.trone.garriott@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 9 for, 0 against

For: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; Exceptional Persons, Inc.; Imagine the Possibilities; Iowa CareGivers; Mosaic; Nishna Productions Inc.; Older Iowans Legislature; One Vision; Village Northwest Unlimited

In plain words

1. February 12, 2024Filed in the Senate and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. February 15, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Edler, Costello and Trone Garriott