BILL · 2021–22 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5894

SB 5894: Comm. health/primary care

Integrating means for payment of community health workers into primary care.

Summary

Requires the Health Care Authority (HCA) to establish a pediatric primary care community health worker program to fund integration of community health workers into clinics that significantly serve kids enrolled in the Medicaid program.
Requires HCA to work with stakeholders to develop a multi-payer primary care transformation model and begin phase-in of value-based payments and accountability for primary care clinics January 1, 2023.
Requires the Department of Health to contract with an organization to convene stakeholders to develop a curriculum for unlicensed health navigators.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to integrating means for payment of community health workers into primary care;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Jan 31, 2022Referred to Ways & Means. (SSB 5894)
Jan 31, 2022Referred to Ways & Means.
Jan 28, 2022BH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5894)
Jan 28, 2022And refer to Ways & Means. (SSB 5894)
Jan 28, 2022And refer to Ways & Means.
Jan 28, 2022BH - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Jan 19, 2022Referred to Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care.
Jan 18, 2022First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

SB 5894 (2025–26) Precious metals tax exempt. · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5894 (2023–24) Equal pay/protected classes · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5894 (2019–20) Firefighters' pension levy · Enacted · Chapter 320, Laws of 2019
SB 5894 (2017–18) Behavioral health system · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5894 (2015–16) Unlawful activity/properties · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5894 (2013–14) Medicaid expansion · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5894 (2011–12) Natural resources T.O. · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5894 (2009–10) Utilities & trans commission · Enacted · Chapter 557, Laws of 2009