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A3590 • 2026

Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.

Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Greenwald, Louis D.
Last action
2026-03-16
Official status
Reported and Referred to Assembly Labor Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.

Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.
  • Topic: Labor Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-16 New Jersey Legislature

    Reported and Referred to Assembly Labor Committee

  2. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Infrastructure Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.
Topic:
Labor
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A3590 TR

ASSEMBLY, No. 3590

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblyman ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman� CLINTON CALABRESE

District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen Donlon, Reynolds-Jackson and Speight

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed
individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and
hospice services; makes appropriation.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Assembly Health Infrastructure
Committee with technical review.

��

An Act

concerning the training of unemployed individuals to work in healthcare
facilities,
home care services, and hospice
services
and supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes, and making
an appropriation.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

����� 1.�� a.�
The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, in consultation with the
Department of Health and healthcare stakeholders, shall establish a program and
standards to identify and recruit unemployed individuals to work in healthcare
facilities
,
home care services, and
hospice services.� The identification process shall include:

����� (1)� an
evaluation of the practicality of training an individual for a specific
position;

����� (2)� the
proximity of relevant positions to the individual�s residence, and an
individual�s transportation options to the position; and

����� (3)� what,
if any, barriers exist preventing the individual from commencing work
immediately for a specific position, even if the position is probationary until
the individual completes relevant or required training.

����� b.
The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure
Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) promulgate rules and
regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act.

����� 2.�� There
is appropriated $250,000 from the General Fund for the purpose of funding
training programs and providing resources for eligible individuals pursuant to
the provisions of this act, in coordination with and utilizing existing
training programs administered by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

����
3.�
This act shall take effect immediately.