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H 4425

Community Health Worker Awareness Week in SC

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Terry Alexander and 122 co-sponsors

Designates Aug 25-29, 2025 as South Carolina's Community Health Worker Awareness Week, recognizing CHWs and urging ongoing support and collaboration to boost community health.

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Bill Summary · H 4425

Summary — H 4425 / Community Health Worker Awareness Week (and related materials)

Note on source materials
- The materials provided contain two distinct legislative texts combined in one file: (1) a South Carolina House resolution declaring August 25–29, 2025 as “Community Health Worker Awareness Week,” and (2) an unrelated Massachusetts bill (House No. 4425 / Docket No. 4991) that would amend Massachusetts General Laws chapter 176K regarding a Medicare end-stage renal disease (ESRD) exclusion. This summary focuses on the South Carolina resolution (title and classification indicate a SC resolution). A brief note about the Massachusetts text is included at the end.

Bill identification (primary)

  • Bill type: House resolution (South Carolina)
  • Title: Community Health Worker Awareness Week in South Carolina
  • Week declared: August 25 through August 29, 2025
  • Status / chronology (select actions from file):
    • Introduced and adopted: 2025-04-29
    • Referred to House Rules: 2025-08-07
    • Reported, referred to Joint Rules and Health Care Financing committee; rules suspended: 2025-08-14
    • Senate concurred: 2025-08-18
  • Related bill entry: HD 4991 (listed as replaces)

Purpose and intent

  • To recognize and honor the contributions of Community Health Workers (CHWs) across South Carolina.
  • To raise public and governmental awareness of CHWs’ role and to encourage continued support and collaboration at state and local levels to strengthen community health outcomes.

Key provisions

  • Officially declares the week of August 25–29, 2025 as “Community Health Worker Awareness Week” in South Carolina.
  • Recites findings and supportive statements about CHWs, including:
    • CHWs are frontline public-health professionals embedded in the communities they serve.
    • CHWs connect under-resourced individuals to health care and essential services, provide education, navigation, and social support.
    • A referenced study claims nearly a $5 return on investment for every $1 invested in CHWs in South Carolina.
    • CHWs work across sectors (health centers, social services, health systems) and in both rural and urban areas.
    • Research supports CHW effectiveness in areas such as maternal and child health, chronic disease, immunization, HIV, oral health, and in reducing ER use and costs.
  • The resolution encourages continued support, collaboration, workforce development, training, and mentoring for CHWs statewide.

Who is affected

  • Primary beneficiaries: Community Health Workers (recognition) and the communities they serve.
  • Secondary: Health systems, social service agencies, public-health entities, and policymakers (encouraged to support CHW programs).
  • Legal/economic impact: The resolution is symbolic and declaratory — it does not create binding legal obligations, appropriations, or regulatory changes.

Procedural / timeline aspects

  • Adopted at least by the House on 2025-04-29 and later received Senate concurrence (file shows 2025-08-18).
  • As a concurrent/house resolution, its main effect is recognition and encouragement rather than statutory change.
  • No specified implementation actions, funding, or reporting requirements are attached.

Note on the Massachusetts text in the file

  • The file also contains Massachusetts House Docket No. 4991 / H.4425 (presented by Rep. Thomas M. Stanley) titled “An Act relative to Medicare coverage of end-stage renal disease.” That text would amend Section 1 of Chapter 176K by striking the phrase “other than a person eligible for Medicare coverage due solely to end-stage renal disease,” thereby removing an exclusion language. This is a separate bill and appears unrelated to the South Carolina resolution.

If you want, I can:
- Produce a one-page brief focused only on the South Carolina resolution for stakeholders, or
- Produce a separate detailed summary of the Massachusetts bill H.4425 (ESRD/Medicare) and its potential legal impacts.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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