HB1138

The amendment BROADENS the definition of a non-medical home care agency by removing the "for consideration" requirement and instead requiring only that the agency operates "as a regular part of a business," adds transportation as a covered service, reduces required aide training from ten hours to eight hours (with the Alzheimer's/dementia component staying at two hours and other training dropping from eight to six hours), and adds new licensing requirements including professional liability insurance, renewal procedures with late fees, and a one-year license validity period.

The amendment narrowed the definition of "non-medical home care services" by requiring that agencies must provide "two or more of" the listed services (rather than any single service), and it removed "transportation" from the list of covered services while adding specificity that home care aides must be paid "for wages in return for services rendered" and that agencies must operate "for compensation and as a regular part of a business." These changes tighten the bill's scope to focus on more comprehensive care providers while excluding standalone transportation services and casual arrangements.

The amendment made only technical, non-substantive changes: it updated the bill's codification number from 26.607.27 to 26.607.28, changed the bill status from "HOUSE ENGROSSED" to "ENROLLED," and removed formatting indicators (underscores and overstrikes notation) while correcting a minor line break in "non-medical." These are standard housekeeping changes that don't alter the bill's regulatory requirements for non-medical home care agency licensure.