Recognizing the Role of Direct Support Professionals Act
Sponsored By: Representative Fitzpatrick
Introduced
Summary
Would direct the Office of Management and Budget to create a separate Standard Occupational Classification code for direct support professionals. The bill would ask OMB to list direct support professionals as a healthcare support occupation in the next SOC revision after enactment.
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- Direct support professionals: Would be given their own occupational code, formally separating the job in federal classification systems.
- Congressional oversight: If OMB declines to establish the code, the Director must submit a written explanation to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Education and Workforce within 30 days of that SOC revision.
- Budget effect: The bill authorizes no additional funds to carry out these actions.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
New job code for direct support workers
This bill would tell the Office of Management and Budget to, at the next update of the federal Standard Occupational Classification system, consider creating a separate job code for direct support professionals as a health care support job. If the Director decides not to create that code, the Director would have to send a written explanation to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce within 30 days after that update.
No new money for this bill
This bill would not authorize any new funds to carry it out. Agencies would have to use current budgets or seek funding in a separate law. This limit would apply as soon as the bill takes effect.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Fitzpatrick
PA • R
Cosponsors
Morelle
NY • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Tonko
NY • D
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Ansari
AZ • D
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Kim
CA • R
Sponsored 12/9/2025
Lawler
NY • R
Sponsored 1/6/2026
Trahan
MA • D
Sponsored 1/12/2026
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 1/14/2026
Scanlon
PA • D
Sponsored 1/16/2026
Mackenzie
PA • R
Sponsored 1/16/2026
Bonamici
OR • D
Sponsored 1/20/2026
Stefanik
NY • R
Sponsored 1/21/2026
Ciscomani
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/21/2026
Thompson (PA)
PA • R
Sponsored 2/2/2026
Mrvan
IN • D
Sponsored 2/3/2026
Fine
FL • R
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Mannion
NY • D
Sponsored 2/13/2026
Bresnahan
PA • R
Sponsored 2/17/2026
Beatty
OH • D
Sponsored 2/20/2026
Dingell
MI • D
Sponsored 2/20/2026
Krishnamoorthi
IL • D
Sponsored 2/24/2026
Vindman
VA • D
Sponsored 3/4/2026
Bost
IL • R
Sponsored 3/12/2026
Golden (ME)
ME • D
Sponsored 3/18/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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