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Committee advances fix to harmonize direct-care eligibility after conflicting session bills
Summary
The committee introduced LLS 25-025 to harmonize definitions that conflict between two 2023 bills affecting the Direct Care Workforce Stabilization Act; the measure passed committee 6–1 after witnesses described the legislative timing that produced the conflict.
The Statutory Revision Committee voted to introduce LLS 25-025, a draft intended to resolve a conflict between two prior session measures that affect the definition of who qualifies as a direct care consumer for the Direct Care Workforce Stabilization Act.
Shelby Ross, legislative drafter with the Office of Legislative Legal Services, told the committee the draft creates an "eligible person" definition that reflects the definition as it existed before a later-enacted change. She said the conflict arose because Senate Bill 261 (a late, accelerated bill creating the direct care definition) and Senate Bill 289 (which amended the definition of…
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