ASSEMBLY, No. 4134

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED APRIL 4, 2024

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

Assemblywoman  SHAVONDA E. SUMTER

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblyman  REGINALD W. ATKINS

District 20 (Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen McCoy and Quijano

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification and supplementing Title 26 and Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  The Department of Health shall make any written or oral examination that is required for nursing assistant certification available in multiple languages including, at a minimum, English and Spanish.

 

     2.  The New Jersey Board of Nursing shall make any written or oral examination that is required for homemaker-home health aide certification available in multiple languages including, at a minimum, English and Spanish.

 

     3.  The Commissioner of Health and the New Jersey Board of Nursing may each adopt rules and regulations, in accordance with the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), if necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.

 

     4.  This act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth month after enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that the homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations be made available in multiple languages.  The bill requires that at a minimum the certification examinations will be made available in English and Spanish.