HB4782

Sustainable Child-serving Workforce and Foster Care Modernization Act

Introduced·1/23/26
Intr Text

Modernizes foster care rates and stabilizes the child-serving workforce in West Virginia.

The Sustainable Child-Serving Workforce and Foster Care Modernization Act updates foster care rates to reflect current costs and includes incentive payments for retention and placement stability. The Department of Human Services, Bureau for Social Services, will rebase basic, special, and therapeutic foster care rates using current cost data and implement an automatic annual adjustment based on indices like the Employment Cost Index for Health Care & Social Assistance or the CPI-Medical index.

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Where it stands

Current
Health & Human Resources Committee
Next
Committee decision

Sponsors

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Calendar

Feb 16

3:30 PM

House Committee on Health and Human Resources Meeting

Feb 16

5:00 PM

Standing Committee on Health and Human Resources Meeting

History

Feb 12

House

Markup Discussion

Jan 23

House

Filed for introduction

Jan 23

House

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