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A4307 • 2026

Permits certified nurse aides to be employed as personal care assistants.

Permits certified nurse aides to be employed as personal care assistants.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Speight, Shanique
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Permits certified nurse aides to be employed as personal care assistants.

Permits certified nurse aides to be employed as personal care assistants.

What This Bill Does

  • Permits certified nurse aides to be employed as personal care assistants.
  • Topic: Regulated Professions Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee

Official Summary Text

Permits certified nurse aides to be employed as personal care assistants.
Topic:
Regulated Professions
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A4307

ASSEMBLY, No. 4307

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits certified nurse aides to be employed as
personal care assistants.�

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
concerning certified nurse aides and personal care
assistants
, and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.� A health care facility,
licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.), shall be permitted to
employ a certified or conditionally certified

nurse aide in the capacity
of a personal care assistant.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill allows a licensed
health care facility to be permitted to employ a certified or conditionally
certified nurse aide (CNA) in the capacity of a personal care assistant.