LRB-0757/P1
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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0237 - Direct support professional training pilot program
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
General health and human services
Direct support professional training pilot program
This bill directs DHS to develop and implement a pilot program in the 2021-23 biennium to provide person-centered direct support professional training to achieve consistent standards of health care practice. The bill instructs DHS to collaborate with DWD, the TCS, and health care providers in developing and implementing the pilot program. Further, this bill directs DHS to develop a career plan that describes the steps that lead to potential certification as a nurse aide.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9119.
Nonstatutory provisions; Health Services
(1) Direct support professional training pilot program.
(a) In the 2021-23 biennium, the department of health services shall develop and implement a pilot program to provide person-centered direct support professional training to achieve consistent standards of health care practice. The department shall provide identified standards of practice that allow health care providers the flexibility to apply the standards of practice to their existing training while also meeting the needs of patients in both community and facility settings.
(b) Any training developed and implemented under par. (a) shall be consistent with state and federal requirements.
(c) The department of health services shall collaborate with the department of workforce development, the Wisconsin technical college system, and health care providers in developing and implementing the pilot program under this section.
(d) The department of health services shall develop a career plan that describes the steps that lead to potential certification as a nurse aide.
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