(1) The department of public health and environment, which is otherwise responsible for the regulation of certain medical facilities, shall, as necessary, assist the board in implementing the provisions of this part 2.
(2) Funding for the nurse aide certification program, as operated by the department of regulatory agencies, shall be provided by the federal medicaid and medicare programs. Medicaid funding shall be secured by the department of health care policy and financing and medicare funding shall be secured by the department of public health and environment. All the funding shall be forwarded to the department of regulatory agencies for its use in operating the nurse aide certification program. The departments of health care policy and financing and public health and environment shall take all reasonable and necessary steps to secure the funding from the federal medicaid and medicare programs.
Source: L. 2020: Entire part added with relocations, (HB 20-1183), ch. 157, p. 685, § 29, effective July 1.
Editor's note: Subsection (1) is similar to former § 12-260-104 (2), and subsection (2) is similar to former § 12-260-104 (6), as they existed prior to 2020.