The following long-term care workers are exempt from the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training requirement:

(1) An applicant for an adult family home license on or before January 6, 2012 who met the basic training requirements in effect at the time of application;

(2) A person employed as a long-term care worker on January 6, 2012 who completed the basic training requirements in effect on the date of his or her hire;

(3) A person employed as a long-term care worker on January 6, 2012 who completed within one hundred twenty days of hire the basic training requirements in effect on the date of his or her hire;

(4) A person previously employed as a long-term care worker who completed the basic training requirements in effect on the date of his or her hire and was employed as a long-term care worker at some point between January 1, 2011 and January 6, 2012;

(5) Washington state department of health registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and advanced registered nurse practitioners licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW;

(6) Washington state department of health nursing assistants certified under chapter 18.88A RCW and persons in an approved training program for certified nursing assistants under chapter 18.88A RCW provided that they complete the training program within one hundred twenty days of the date of hire and the department of health has issued them their nursing assistant certified credential within two hundred days of the date of hire;

(7) A home health aide who was employed by a medicare certified home health agency within the year before the home health aide was hired as a long-term care worker and has met the requirements of 42 C.F.R. Sec. 484.36; and

(8) An individual with special education training with an endorsement granted by the Washington state superintendent of public instruction as described in RCW 28A.300.010.