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Committee advances bill to expand positive supports workforce through competency pathways and $1 million appropriation
Summary
House File 2722 would change qualification rules for positive support specialists and analysts to allow competency‑based pathways, appropriate $1 million to DHS for a statewide competency program, and expand access to evidence‑based positive supports to reduce hospital and institutional stays. The committee laid the bill over.
House File 2722 was presented to the House Committee for Human Services on April 1 with sponsors and provider witnesses urging changes to positive‑support staff qualifications and an appropriation to build a statewide competency‑based training infrastructure.
The bill would remove restrictive experience requirements adopted after 2019, reintroducing pre‑2019 standards for certain positions, and create a…
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