Bill Text: CA AB1656 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Certified nurse assistant training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1656 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB1656-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1656

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Introduced by Assembly Member Burke
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Dababneh)

February 17, 2017

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An act to add Section 11025 to the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce development.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1656, as introduced, Burke. Caregiver training initiative.

Existing law establishes the Caregiver Training Initiative to develop and implement proposals designed to recruit, train, and retain health care providers such as certified nurse assistants, certified nurses, registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and other types of nursing and direct-care staff. Under the initiative, contracts are required to be awarded to regional collaborative programs selected through a competitive request for proposals process. Existing law requires the Employment Development Department, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, to administer regional collaborative program selection and funding and specifies various duties of the Employment Development Department.

This bill would require the department to continue to provide support to programs that were funded pursuant to the initiative and that effectively recruited and trained certified nurse assistants.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 11025 is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:

11025.

 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to increase efforts to support caregiver training due to the increase in the workforce shortage within long term care facilities since the enactment of this chapter.

(b) The Employment Development Department shall continue to provide support to programs that were funded pursuant to this chapter and that effectively recruited and trained certified nurse assistants.