HB1138

The engrossed version BROADENS the bill's scope by expanding the definition of non-medical home care agencies to require licensure based on operating "as a regular part of a business" (rather than just "for consideration"), adding transportation as a covered service, requiring professional liability insurance and criminal background checks, and reducing the minimum training requirement for home care aides from ten hours to eight hours while adding a two-hundred-dollar late fee for delayed license renewals.

The amendment NARROWS the definition of what constitutes a non-medical home care agency and the services it provides by requiring agencies to operate "for compensation" as a regular business practice, limiting covered services to "two or more" specific activities, and removing "transportation" from the list of covered services. These changes make the licensure requirements apply to a more limited set of home care providers while removing some previously covered service types from regulation.

The amendment changed the bill's codification number from 26.607.27 to 26.607.28 and reformatted it from the "House Engrossed" version to the "Enrolled" version for final passage, which are technical legislative processing changes with no substantive impact on the bill's requirements for licensing non-medical home care agencies.