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Committee Signs Off on Report Language Recording Retention and Travel Nurse Reliance for Skilled Nursing Grants
Summary
Joint Fiscal Office and legislative counsel inserted report language on skilled nursing facility grants to include workforce retention metrics and reductions in reliance on travel nurses; committee accepted technical edits and added the word "retention."
The Joint Fiscal Committee reviewed report language for skilled nursing facility grants that the committee amended to require reporting on workforce retention and, at the Joint Fiscal Office's suggestion, reductions in reliance on travel nurses.
Why it matters: report language will shape how the legislature monitors the performance of grant recipients and workforce investments in skilled nursing facilities.
Grady Nixon of the Joint Fiscal Office presented the report language. Committee members agreed to include the term "retention" following "workforce" in two instances; the Joint Fiscal Office then added language to require reporting on "including reduction of reliance on travel nurses." Members signaled agreement with that addition.
The language covers current‑year appropriations and the appropriation in H493 (a budget bill reference in the transcript). The committee discussed the need to see program outcomes, including how many nursing staff were retained and how investments affected reliance on agency/travel nurses.
Discussion only: the committee accepted the drafting changes and technical updates; no formal vote recorded. Staff will retain the report language in the bill and expect recipients to supply retention and travel nurse reliance metrics as part of the report.
Next steps: recipients of the skilled nursing facility grants will be asked to include workforce retention figures and information on travel nurse reliance in required reports to the legislature.
