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LFO: $75 million set aside for home‑care bargaining; legislature will need more to cover roll‑up costs

Joint Subcommittee on Human Services · January 13, 2026
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Summary

The Legislative Fiscal Office asked the Joint Subcommittee to acknowledge a $75 million special appropriation to cover a new collective bargaining agreement raising base pay to $23/hour and warned the Legislature will need roughly $72.4 million more in 2027–29 to cover roll‑up costs.

Gregory Jolivette of the Legislative Fiscal Office told the Joint Subcommittee on Human Services that a special purpose appropriation of $75,000,000 was set aside to cover costs tied to a newly negotiated non‑state employee collective bargaining agreement for home‑care and personal‑support workers. "This covers 14,000 home care workers, about 12,000 personal support workers," Jolivette said, and the contract raises base pay from $20 to $23 an…

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