Trauma informed personnel for residential child care.
Summary
Allows licensed child caring institutions, group homes, and secure private facilities (residential child care facilities) to hire not more than one trauma informed support employee per living unit per shift. Provides for full reimbursement of the cost of employment of a trauma informed support employee for residential child care facilities that have four or more children residing in a living unit. Excludes trauma informed support employees from calculation of the ratio of direct care staff to children for purposes of rate setting for residential child care facilities.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 4, 2022
Last action Jan 13, 2022
Floor votes
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
7
Key actions
1
Committee
2
Jan 13, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
lower
Jan 13, 2022
Lower · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Bob Behning
RRepublican
Co
Carolyn Jackson
DDemocratic
Co
Dale DeVon
RRepublican
Co
Jeff Thompson
RRepublican
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