HR 2341 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act of 2011

Introduced Jun 23, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Linda T. Sánchez D-CA

Latest action · Sep 8, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJun 23, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 with respect to the exemption from minimum wage and maximum hour requirements of any employee employed on a casual basis in domestic service employment to provide companionship services for individuals who because of age or infirmity are unable to care for themselves. Extends the same exemption to a casual employee in domestic service employment to provide companionship services for disabled individuals unable to care for themselves.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a direct care workforce monitoring program.

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require a state Medicaid plan to require the state to report annually to the Secretary on the adequacy of its direct care workforce to provide long-term care (LTC) services.

Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the National Health Care Workforce Commission, as a high priority, to review, analyze, and report annually to Congress and the Health Resources and Services Administration on the current and projected direct care workforce supply and demand.

Directs the Secretary to award grants to states, Indian tribes, and tribal organizations to develop data collection and monitoring systems to assess the adequacy of a state's or tribe's direct care workforce to meet current and future demand for LTC services.

Directs the Secretary to award competitive three-year grants to states and other eligible entities to improve the recruitment, retention, and education of direct care workers.

Cosponsors 34

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 23, 2011 to Jan 24, 2012; 20 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-OH	Betty Sutton	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-OR	David Wu	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-CA	Laura Richardson	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Jun 23, 2011
D-MA	Barney Frank		Jul 7, 2011
D-IA	David Loebsack		Jul 7, 2011
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Jul 7, 2011
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Jul 7, 2011
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jul 7, 2011
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Jul 7, 2011
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Jul 20, 2011
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Jul 20, 2011
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jul 21, 2011
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Sep 15, 2011
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		Sep 15, 2011
D-CA	Judy Chu		Nov 4, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Dec 16, 2011
D-CA	Joe Baca		Jan 24, 2012

Withdrew 1 James R. Langevin D-RI Apr 19, 2012

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Jun 23, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jun 24, 2011
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Jun 23, 2011
	Workforce Protections Subcommittee	Referred Sep 8, 2011

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Sep 8, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Jun 24, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 23, 2011Introduced in House
Jun 23, 2011Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 The Congress shall have Power to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H4529.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 112-54	ENSURING REGULATIONS PROTECT ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE AND QUALITY COMPANION CARE133 pages	Education and Workforce Committee	Mar 20, 2012
Serial No. 112-33	THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT: IS IT MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WORKPLACE?88 pages	Education and Workforce Committee	Jul 14, 2011

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1273	Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act of 2011	Related bill	Jun 23, 2011

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act with regard to certain exemptions under that Act for direct care workers and to improve the systems for the collection and reporting of data relating to the direct care workforce, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act of 2011

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 23, 2011Introduced in House

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