Bill Text: NJ A4134 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-09-30 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [A4134 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4134-Amended.html
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 reported by the Assembly Regulated Professions Committee on June 3, 2024, with amendments.
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 1[and] ,1 Spanish 1, Haitian Creole, and Tagalog1.
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 1[and] ,1 Spanish 1, Haitian Creole, and Tagalog1.
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.
