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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-693
RECOGNIZING THE ROLE OF DIRECT SUPPORT
PROFESSIONALS ACT
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2941]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 2941) to require the Office of Management
and Budget to revise the Standard Occupational Classification sys-
tem to establish a separate code for direct support professionals,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Recognizing the Role of Direct Support Professionals
Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Direct support professionals play a critical role in the care provided to in-
dividuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
(2) Providers of home- and community-based services are experiencing dif-
ficulty hiring and retaining direct support professionals, with a national turn-
over rate of 43 percent, as identified in a 2021 study by the National Core Indi-
cators, and full-time vacancy rates increasing by 94 percent between 2019 and
2021.
(3) High turnover rates can lead to instability for individuals receiving serv-
ices, and this may result in individuals not receiving enough personalized care
to help them reach their goals for independent living.
(4) A discrete occupational category for direct support professionals will help
States and the Federal government-
(A) better interpret the shortage in the labor market of direct support
professionals; and
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