H359

Relative to health equity and community health workers

Introduced·2/27/25
Introduced Text

Establishes a task force to study community health workers and recommends improvements for their roles and reimbursement.

The bill creates a Community Health Worker Workforce Development Taskforce to study and assess the community health worker workforce, including their roles, certification barriers, and reimbursement. The taskforce will issue a report with recommendations on improving data collection, certification, role standardization, recruitment, retention, and reimbursement structures. The bill also mandates coverage and reimbursement for community health worker services delivered by certified workers.

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Where it stands

Current
Health Care Financing Committee
Next
Committee decision

Sponsors

D
1
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Democratic CaucusRepublican Caucus

Calendar

Sep 29, 2025

9:00 AM

Joint Committee on Public Health Hearing

Sep 29, 2025

9:00 AM

Joint Committee on Public Health Hearing

History

Jul 9

House

Reporting date extended to Thursday, December 31, 2026

Dec 22, 2025

House

Reported favorably by committee and referred to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Sep 29, 2025

Joint

Hearing rescheduled to 09/29/2025 from 09:00 AM-11:30 PM in A-2 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time