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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGULATORY PROVISIONS CONCERNING PUBLIC HEALTH. This Act commits discretion over the length of certified nursing assistant training and orientation programs to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. This change will facilitate the rapid certification of National Guard members as certified nursing assistants (CNAs) by allowing the Department of Health and Social Services to establish the total required classroom and clinical training and mandatory facility-specific orientation hours. Modeled after a Minnesota initiative, eligible guard members will participate in rapid certification programs through DelTech and be deployed to provide temporary staffing in long term care facilities experiencing staffing shortages under MOUs entered will the facilities. National Guard members have served as a critical part of the states response efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Training and deploying National Guard soldiers to work as CNAs will help relieve staffing shortages in health care settings and facilitate the transfer of patients out of Delawares hospitals to free up in-patient bed space. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 151 HB 280 Delaware HB 280 (151)
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Daniel B. Short
David Bentz
David P. Sokola
Gerald W. Hocker
Melissa Minor-Brown
Peter C. Schwartzkopf
Sarah McBride
Sherry Dorsey Walker
Valerie Longhurst
William J. Carson
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Delaware HB 280 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGULATORY PROVISIONS CONCERNING PUBLIC HEALTH.

This Act commits discretion over the length of certified nursing assistant training and orientation programs to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. This change will facilitate the rapid certification of National Guard members as certified nursing assistants (CNAs) by allowing the Department of Health and Social Services to establish the total required classroom and clinical training and mandatory facility-specific orientation hours. Modeled after a Minnesota initiative, eligible guard members will participate in rapid certification programs through DelTech and be deployed to provide temporary staffing in long term care facilities experiencing staffing shortages under MOUs entered will the facilities. National Guard members have served as a critical part of the states response efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Training and deploying National Guard soldiers to work as CNAs will help relieve staffing shortages in health care settings and facilitate the transfer of patients out of Delawares hospitals to free up in-patient bed space.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 210 (pass) · upper
  • SM — 410 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
  • Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
  • David Bentz — primary (person)
  • David P. Sokola — primary (person)
  • Gerald W. Hocker — primary (person)
  • Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
  • Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
  • Sarah McBride — primary (person)
  • Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
  • Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
  • William J. Carson — primary (person)
  • Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
  • Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
  • Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
  • Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
  • Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
  • Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
  • Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
  • Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
  • Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
  • Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
  • Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
  • Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
  • S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
  • Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
  • Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
  • Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2022-01-06 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2022-01-11 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-01-13 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
  • 2022-01-13 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2022-01-19 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-01-19 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
  • 2022-01-24 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e9c2ec5f-4f9b-4866-ae92-d232429cd335. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).