STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 995

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Assemblyman Moran)

ADOPTED: FEBRUARY 8, 1996

      These floor amendments allow the home health care agency, nurses’ registry, employment agency, or temporary help agency to either assume the cost of all criminal history record background checks conducted on prospective employees or require the prospective employee to pay the cost of the criminal history record background check. Section 4 of this bill allows a facility for the institutionalized elderly this option.

      The amendments also authorizes the Division of Consumer Affairs to require that the Board of Nursing issue biennial recertifications to home health aides only upon receiving documented proof from a home health care agency or health care service firm that the home health aide is currently employed and regularly supervised by a registered professional nurse. Additionally, the division shall require that a Board of Nursing certificate issued to a home health aide contain the following statement: "Valid only if certified home health aide is employed by a home care services agency and is performing delegated nursing regimen or nursing tasks delegated through the authority of a duly licensed registered professional nurse."