WA SB6019

Requires the Department of Social and Health Services to determine home care agency labor rates within 60 days after each odd-numbered year legislative session ends, converting negotiated wages and benefits for individual providers into per-quarter-hour amounts

Mandates that home care agency labor rate funds be used exclusively for direct care worker wages, benefits, mileage, training partnership contributions, health benefit trust contributions, and retirement trust contributions

Establishes verification requirements where home care agencies must submit either an independent third-party audit or written attestation from the workers' exclusive bargaining representative confirming compliance with labor, health care, and training rate requirements

Expands the rate-setting board's authority to determine both consumer directed employer rates and home care agency administrative rates, with administrative rates capped at no more than 20 percent of the total vendor rate

Grants the department authority to modify labor and administrative rates between rate-setting cycles by up to 2 percent to address changes in tax rates, required employer contributions, mileage allowances, or significant regulatory changes, contingent on legislative appropriation