Section 105 – Qualifications for certification.

• (1) The department shall issue a certification described in Section 26-71-104 to a community health worker if the community health worker has:
  • (a) completed core-skill training administered by:
    • (i) the department;
    • (ii) a state professional association that:
      • (A) is associated with the community health worker profession; and
      • (B) is aligned with a national community health worker professional association; or
    • (iii) an entity designated by a state professional association described in Subsection (1)(a)(ii);
  • (b) completed training regarding basic medical confidentiality requirements, including the confidentiality requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1936, as amended;
  • (c) completed an application as designed by the department with a signed statement agreeing to abide by national standards of practice and ethics for community health workers; and
  • (d) paid a fee established by the department under Section 63J-1-504.

• (2) A community health worker with at least 4,000 hours of experience as a community health worker is exempt from the core-skill training requirement described in Subsection (1)(a).

Enacted by Chapter 279, 2022 General Session

Technically renumbered for proper placement in Title 26, Chapter 71.