HB 1435 Summary

• State Department of Health gains authority to suspend or revoke nurse aide certifications if the aide meets disqualifying criteria in specified statutes or is found to have committed abuse, neglect, exploitation of residents, or misappropriation of resident/client property.

• Certified nurse aides and nurse aide trainees must maintain current residential addresses in the registry and notify within 10 days of any address or name changes, with name changes requiring certified copies of court documents.

• Department must include abuse, neglect, or exploitation findings in the registry within 10 working days of substantiation, containing investigation documentation, hearing dates, and individual dispute statements that remain unless a court reverses the finding or the individual dies.

• Written notices and orders sent to an address on file in the registry are deemed legally served if returned by U.S. Postal Service as "unclaimed," "moved," "refused," or similar nondelivery markings and no address change was received by the registry.

• Nursing assistant training programs must include a minimum of 10 hours of training in Alzheimer's patient care, and certification/recertification fees may not exceed $15.00.

• Act becomes effective November 1, 2015.