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Sponsored byShanique Speight+11 co-sponsors
Last updated Oct 29, 2026 · NJ · Source: LegiScan ↗
This bill requires the New Jersey Department of Health and the Board of Nursing to make the certification examinations for nursing assistants and homemaker-home health aides available in multiple languages, specifically including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Tagalog.
A2210 ASSEMBLY, No. 2210 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 222nd LEGISLATURE PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION Sponsored by: Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT District 29 (Essex and Hudson) Co-Sponsored by: Assemblywomen McCoy, Quijano, Reynolds-Jackson, Assemblyman Schaer, Assemblywomen Haider, Peterpaul, Donlon and Assemblyman Sampson SYNOPSIS Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages. CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel. 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, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Tagalog. 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, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Tagalog. 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. STATEMENT This bill requires that the homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations be made available in multiple languages. The bill requires that at a minimum the certification examinations will be made available in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Tagalog.
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