Legislation

To Expand Coverage for Direct-Care Workers

• Illinois: HB4404: text and status
• Iowa: HF 2539  passed
• Maine: LD 1687 – text  did not pass
• Maine: LD 1934 – text and status| report  passed
• Massachusetts: SB705 – text | status  proposed
• Montana: SB206 – text  passed
• New Hampshire: SB279 – text  proposed

To Expand Coverage for All

These selected proposed and existing laws and regulations expand coverage for low-income people, including direct-care workers and their families.

• Connecticut: SB 482 – text and status  proposed
• Hawaii: Prepaid Health Care Act – text| description and analysis  passed
• Illinois: All Kids – text| description and analysis  passed
• Iowa: HF 2539  passed
• Maine: Dirigo Health Insurance – text| description and analysis  passed
• Massachusetts: Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 – text| description and analysis  passed
• Michigan First MI Heart Legislation – text  proposed
• Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program – text and status  proposed
• Pennsylvania:  Access to Basic Care – text and summary  proposed
• Pennsylvania: Small Group Health Benefits insurance reform bill – text  proposed
• Vermont: the Health Care Affordability Act – text| description and analysis  passed
• Wisconsin: Healthy Wisconsin – text|description and analysis
• San Francisco Health Access Program – description and analysis  passed

These state-mandated programs for other special populations could serve as models for expanding coverage for direct-care workers.

• Rhode Island: Child Care Provider RIte Care Program – description & eligibility rules  passed
• Massachusetts: Fishing Partnership Health Plan – description & analysis  passed

Information on what states are doing to expand coverage.

• The National Conference of State Legislatures
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives
• Progressive States Network