[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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