# 114-hr-3860: Ensuring Access to Affordable and Quality Home Care for Seniors and People with Disabilities Act

114-hr-3860, Ensuring Access to Affordable and Quality Home Care for Seniors and People with Disabilities Act, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-5] (R-MI); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-3860
- Congress: 114
- Title: Ensuring Access to Affordable and Quality Home Care for Seniors and People with Disabilities Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Introduced: 2015-10-29
- Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-5] (R-MI)
- Cosponsors: 13
- Policy area: Labor and Employment
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Ensuring Access to Affordable and Quality Home Care for Seniors and People with Disabilities Act This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 with respect to the exemption from minimum wage and maximum hour requirements of domestic service employment to provide companionship services for individuals who because of age or infirmity are unable to care for themselves. Definitions of "companionship services" and "domestic service employment" are detailed. Excluded from companionship services are any relating to the care and protection of the aged or infirm which require and are performed by trained medical personnel. The exemption shall now extend to third-party employment of an employee to provide companionship services to such individuals, including non-medical in-home personal care or household work related to their care. "Third-party employment" means employees who provide companionship or live-in domestic services while employed by an employer or agency other than the family or household using their services, whether or not such an employee provides services to more than one household or family in the same workweek when providing such services. Exempted also from the Act's maximum hour requirements are third-party employment in domestic service of an employee who resides in the household in which the services are provided.

## Cosponsors (13)

- Rep. Rokita, Todd [R-IN-4] (R-IN), 2015-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3] (R-NE), 2015-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1] (R-TN), 2015-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Brooks, Mo [R-AL-5] (R-AL), 2015-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2] (R-KS), 2015-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bucshon, Larry [R-IN-8] (R-IN), 2015-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Barletta, Lou [R-PA-11] (R-PA), 2015-11-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1] (R-VA), 2015-11-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] (R-AR), 2016-01-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Graves, Garret [R-LA-6] (R-LA), 2016-01-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8] (R-FL), 2016-03-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Allen, Rick W. [R-GA-12] (R-GA), 2016-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rigell, E. Scott [R-VA-2] (R-VA), 2016-04-27T00:00:00.000Z

## Related bills

- 114-hr-4773: Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act
- 114-hr-1624: Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act
- 114-hr-160: Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2015
- 114-hr-3134: Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015
- 114-hr-2992: Merchant Marine of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act
- 114-hr-1190: Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2015

## Sources
- [114-hr-3860 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3860)

## Related
- [114-hr-4773: Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-4773)
- [114-hr-1624: Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-1624)
- [114-hr-160: Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2015](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-160)
- [114-hr-3134: Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-3134)
- [114-hr-2992: Merchant Marine of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-2992)
- [114-hr-1190: Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2015](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-1190)
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