The monitoring stage tracks how the HIA impacted the policy, the policy outcomes and the impact
of the policy on health outcomes. After being approved by the State Assembly, the legislation
stalled in the Senate Appropriations Committee presumably because budget analysts had identified a
large cost to the State to adopt the legislation. Although most State employees already had paid sick
days, a large number of state-contracted home healthcare workers did not receive paid sick days
benefits, and would have been required to receive them under the legislation