BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

SB 5211: DD parental caregivers

Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.

Summary

Directs the Developmental Disability Administration (DDA) of the Department of Social and Health Services to submit requests to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for amendments to applicable DDA Home and Community Based Services waivers to allow parents who provide personal care services to their minor children with developmental disabilities to receive payment for providing personal care services that qualify as extraordinary care no later than January 1, 2026, and as necessary thereafter.
Provides that parental caregivers have the option to be employed as individual providers, subject to the same training and oversight as other individual providers.
Defines child, parent, and extraordinary care.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities;

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

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

SB 5211 (2023–24) Firearms/purchase & transfer · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5211 (2021–22) Tax increment financing · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5211 (2019–20) Animals/paramedic training · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5211 (2017–18) Adjudicative proceedings · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5211 (2015–16) Retiree return-to-work/PERS · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5211 (2013–14) Social networking accounts · Enacted · Chapter 330, Laws of 2013
SB 5211 (2011–12) Forest practice applications · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5211 (2009–10) Candidates for public office · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House