A2210 • 2026

Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Speight, Shanique
Last action: 2026-01-13
Official status: Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.

What This Bill Does

Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.
Topic: Regulated Professions Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires homemaker-home health aide and nursing assistant certification examinations to be translated into multiple languages.
Topic:
Regulated Professions
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A2210

ASSEMBLY, No. 2210

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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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, Assemblymen Sampson and
Angelozzi

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.

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An Act

concerning homemaker-home health aide and
nursing assistant certification and supplementing Title 26 and Title 45 of the
Revised Statutes.

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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.