Bill Text: NJ S3442 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits home health care services agencies to employ certified nurse aides as homemaker-home health aides.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-17 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S3442 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S3442-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JAMES BEACH
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Permits home health care services agencies to employ certified nurse aides as homemaker-home health aides.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning home health care services agencies and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any State law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, a home care services agency licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) may employ a certified nurse aide to work as a homemaker-home health aide.
2. The New Jersey Board of Nursing may adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect 90 days after the date of enactment, except that the New Jersey Board of Nursing may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
The bill provides that a licensed home care services agency licensed may employ certified nurse aides to work as homemaker-home health aides. Under current law, home care services agencies are only permitted to employ certified homemaker-home health aides, while long-term care facilities are permitted to employ both certified homemaker-home health aides and certified nurse aides under certain conditions.
