Bill Text: NJ A4809 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-24 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A4809 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4809-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4809

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblyman  ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman  GARNET R. HALL

District 28 (Essex and Union)

 

 

 

 

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 Labor Committee on October 24, 2024, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning the training of unemployed individuals to work in healthcare facilities ¹, home care services, and hospice services¹ 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 ¹, home care services, and hospice services¹.  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 ¹[general fund] General Fund¹ 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.