(1) If an individual is required to or chooses to become a certified home care aide and completes the seventy hour training requirements under this section, the individual will be required to continue to comply with these requirements to maintain his or her credential and complete continuing education requirements even if:

(a) The monthly authorized hours are later reduced to twenty or fewer hours;

(b) He or she no longer works for a second unrelated client; or

(c) The individual works less than three hundred respite hours in a calendar year.

(2) The training and certification requirements for an individual that met the above criteria in subsection (1) of this section does not apply when the individual returns to work only for his or her biological, step, or adoptive parent, or adult child.