GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 936
Committee Substitute Favorable 5/9/95

Short Title:  Domiciliary Homes/Employee Training.	(Public)

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April 12, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT EMPLOYEES OF DOMICILIARY HOMES FOR THE AGED AND DISABLED AND THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED RECEIVE TRAINING IN PERSONAL CARE OF THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED AND TO REQUIRE TRAINING STANDARDS FOR FAMILY CARE HOMES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 131D-2 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"( f1)	The Department of Human Resources shall ensure that, in order to maintain its license, a domiciliary home for the aged or disabled or for the developmentally disabled shall have all employees responsible for hands-on-care of residents trained in the care of the elderly and the disabled within three months of hiring.
The Department shall adopt rules to prescribe the appropriate type of training to be required, including:
(1)	The requirement that all employees of domiciliary homes for the aged or disabled or for the developmentally disabled shall receive at least 40 hours of training in the care of the aged and disabled;
(2)	The requirement that all employees of domiciliary homes for the aged or disabled or for the developmentally disabled, who provide hands-on-care to residents in need of assistance with four or more activities of daily living, shall receive at least 75 hours in the care of the aged and disabled;
(3)	The requirement that the training shall include, at a minimum:
a.	Personal care skills;
b.	Cognitive, behavioral, and social care;
c.	Basic restorative services; and
d.	Residents' rights.
(4)	The requirement for continuing training at appropriate intervals; and
(5)	Any other rules the Department determines necessary to implement this section.
The Department of Human Resources shall also develop training standards for persons who own and operate family care homes or are employees of family care homes as the Department deems appropriate."
Sec. 2.  (a)	Domiciliary homes for the aged or disabled or for the developmentally disabled operating as of the effective date of this act shall have 12 months from that date to have all employees employed as of that date trained as required by Sections 1 and 2 of this act.  Employees hired after that date shall be trained within the three months prescribed in Section 1 of this act.
(b)	The Division of Facility Services, Department of Human Resources, shall reimburse all facilities operating as of the effective date of this act for the training cost incurred in having those employees trained who are employed as of the effective date of this act.  Employees hired after this date shall bear the cost of their training.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1995.