S 1609 New Jersey Senate · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Creates online job portal for behavioral health care workers and online internship and externship portal for health care students.

This bill requires New Jersey's Department of Health to create two online platforms: one for employers to list job openings for behavioral health care workers (treating mental illness, emotional disorders, or substance use) and another for employers to post internship/externship opportunities that provide academic credits for health care students. It directly affects in-state employers posting positions, behavioral health care workers seeking jobs, and health care students pursuing licensure or certification. The portals must be maintained online, with the department allowed to hire third parties to develop them. The bill defines "behavioral health care" specifically and mandates that internship postings must qualify for academic credits toward health care professional training.
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Jan 2024
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Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Jan 9, 2024
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Jan 9, 2024
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Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee
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