STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator M. TERESA RUIZ
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
Senator RAJ MUKHERJI
District 32 (Hudson)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator McKnight
SYNOPSIS
Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
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.