CO SB238

State department must request 8.1% reimbursement rate increase from federal government within 90 days for homemaker, homemaker enhanced, and personal care services delivered through home- and community-based services waivers.

Home care agencies receiving Colorado Medical Assistance Act reimbursement must pass 100% of 2019-20 rate increases to direct care employees as additional compensation and 85% of 2020-21 and later rate increases to nonadministrative employees.

Minimum wage for personal care, homemaker, and in-home support service workers is set at $12.41 per hour effective July 1, 2020.

Home care agencies must track and report to the state department how they used rate increase funding, with reports due by December 31, 2020 and 2021; agencies must maintain payroll documentation for three years.

State department may recoup rate increase funding from agencies that fail to use required percentages for employee compensation, fail to report usage, or do not respond to compliance notices within 45 days; appropriates $5,682,377 in general fund and anticipates $5,744,875 in federal funds for fiscal year 2019-20.