Bill Text: NJ A4087 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases pay for certified nurse aides; makes appropriation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-18 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee [A4087 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4087-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
Assemblyman BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Increases pay for certified nurse aides; makes appropriation.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning certified nurse aides and making an appropriation.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Department of Health shall establish a certified nurse aide funding program to distribute monies to employers of certified nurse aides in an amount that is necessary to address certified nurse aide staffing challenges in this State, as determined by the Commissioner of Health, which monies shall be used by the employers to increase the pay of existing or new employees who are certified nurse aides. The Commissioner of Health shall establish an application process, guidelines, and compliance standards for the certified nurse aide funding program.
2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health such funds as are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire upon the distribution of funds appropriated pursuant to section 2 of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill increases pay for certified nurse aides and makes and appropriation.
Under the bill, the Department of Health is to establish a certified nurse aide funding program to distribute monies to employers of certified nurse aides in an amount that is necessary to address certified nurse aide staffing challenges in this State, as determined by the Commissioner of Health, which monies are to be used by the employers to increase the pay of existing or new employees who are certified nurse aides. The Commissioner of Health is to establish an application process, guidelines, and compliance standards for the certified nurse aide funding program.
