S-5162

   Amend House File 2458, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 21, after line 27 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT.  The general assembly finds that health occupations are widely recognized as high-demand occupations and high-turnover jobs. Therefore, it is the intent of the general assembly that the college student aid commission, the department of workforce development and the Iowa workforce development board, the Iowa commission on volunteer service, and the economic development authority work to incorporate health occupations, including but not limited to nurse aides, home care and hospice aides, and other direct care and service workers, in programs created under this Act to address the recruitment and retention of the direct care workforce and assist in bringing to scale recruitment and retention programs and initiatives that utilize best practices, such as the prepare to care training program and the mouth care matters initiative.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MATT McCOY