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Committee advances Best Life Alliance bill to raise wage factors for disability services
Summary
House File 3‑82, the Best Life Alliance bill, would increase the competitive workforce factor and adjust supervisory wage calculations in the disability waiver rate system to help providers recruit and retain staff; the committee adopted a technical amendment and laid the bill over.
Representative Jo Curran presented House File 3‑82, the Best Life Alliance bill, asking lawmakers to increase reimbursement factors used to set wages in waiver‑funded disability services. The committee adopted a technical A1 amendment and laid the bill over for further consideration.
The bill contains two targeted reforms: update the competitive workforce factor in the Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS) to reflect the most recent Department of Human Services analysis (testimony cited a…
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