Delaware House Bill 280 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-6)
Status: Passed on January 24 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-01-24 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act commits discretion over the length of certified nursing assistant training and orientation programs to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. This change will facilitate the rapid certification of National Guard members as certified nursing assistants (CNAs) by allowing the Department of Health and Social Services to establish the total required classroom and clinical training and mandatory facility-specific orientation hours. Modeled after a Minnesota initiative, eligible guard members will participate in rapid certification programs through DelTech and be deployed to provide temporary staffing in long term care facilities experiencing staffing shortages under MOUs entered will the facilities. National Guard members have served as a critical part of the states response efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Training and deploying National Guard soldiers to work as CNAs will help relieve staffing shortages in health care settings and facilitate the transfer of patients out of Delawares hospitals to free up in-patient bed space.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health.

Rep. David Bentz [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]
Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. William Carson [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]
Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Rep. Peter Schwartzkopf [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]
Sen. Kyle Gay [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]
Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Gerald Brady [D]
Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Ronald Gray [R]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]
Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Larry Lambert [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]
Rep. Michael Smith [R]

2022-01-19 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-01-13 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 41 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-01-24		Signed by Governor
2022-01-19		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2022-01-19		Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
2022-01-13		Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate
2022-01-13		Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
2022-01-11		Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
2022-01-06		Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79051
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=79051&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB280
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#52769
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#52775