[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34140-34141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-14447]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Establishment of the Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory
Panel
AGENCY: Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS)
Office, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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Authority: The Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory Panel
is authorized under section 8002 of the Affordable Care Act, Pub. L.
111-148. The Committee is governed by provisions of Pub. L. 92-463,
as amended, (5 U.S.C. App. 2), which sets forth standards for the
formation and use of advisory committees.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announces
establishment of the Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory Panel,
as directed by section 8002 of Public Law 111-148.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margaret Reiser, Department of Health
and Human Services; Telephone (202) 690-7858, Fax (202) 690-7383.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Affordable Care Act, Public Law
111-148, the President directed that the Committee shall be established
within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). To comply
with the authorizing directive and guidelines under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), a charter has been filed with the
Committee Management Secretariat in the General Services Administration
(GSA), the appropriate committees in the Senate and U.S. House of
Representatives, and the Library of Congress to establish the
Commission as a non-discretionary Federal advisory committee. The
Secretary signed the charter on June 4, 2010. The charter was filed on
June 7, 2010.
Objectives and Scope of Activities. The Personal Care Attendants
Workforce Advisory Panel is the Department's statutory public advisory
body on personal care attendant workforce issues related to the
Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act in the
Affordable Care Act. With sensitivity to policy considerations and
priorities, the Committee will provide advice and guidance on issues
related to the adequacy of the number of personal care attendant
workers, the salaries, wages, and benefits, and access to the services
provided by personal care attendant workers. The Committee shall assist
and advise the Department on personal care attendant workforce policy
as it pertains to the Department, States, local governments and the
private sector.
Membership and Designation. The Secretary is soliciting nominations
for appointment to the 15-member Advisory Panel from among members of
the general public who are individuals who have distinguished
themselves in the fields of long-term services and supports; aging and
disability populations and services; practices that help reduce high
personal care attendant workforce vacancy and turnover rates; Medicaid,
Medicare, the Older Americans Act and the Workforce Investment System;
community residential services; and policy analysis and development
related to the financing, access, provision and quality of health care
services. Each member of the Advisory Panel shall be appointed for a
term of 2 years. Nominations shall be submitted to Margaret Reiser,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 200 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Room 415F, Washington, DC, 20201 no later than June 18, 2010. Any
vacancy on the Advisory Panel shall not affect its powers, but shall be
filled in the same manner as the original appointment was made. An
individual chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed for the
unexpired term of the member replaced. A Chair will be designated from
among its members. Members who are selected from the Federal sector to
fill positions on the Committee will be classified as regular
government employees. The Committee members who are selected from the
public and/or private sector will be classified as special government
employees.
Administrative Management and Support. HHS will provide funding and
administrative support for the Committee to the extent permitted by law
within existing appropriations. Staff will be assigned to a program
office established to support the activities of the Committee.
Management and oversight for support services provided to the Committee
will be the responsibility of the CLASS Office. All executive
departments and agencies and all entities within the Executive Office
of the President shall provide information and assistance to the
Committee as the Chair may request for purposes of carrying out the
Committee's functions, to the extent permitted by law.
A copy of the Commission charter can be obtained from the
designated contacts or by accessing the FACA database that is
maintained by the GSA Committee Management Secretariat. The
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Web site for the FACA database is http://fido.gov/facadatabase/.
Dated: June 10, 2010.
Donald B. Moulds,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2010-14447 Filed 6-15-10; 8:45 am]
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