Bill Text: NJ A1948 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Permits flexible scheduling of private duty nursing services for eligible Medicaid recipients.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-02 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A1948 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A1948-Amended.html
ASSEMBLY, No. 1948
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
216th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman HERB CONAWAY, JR.
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblywoman PAMELA R. LAMPITT
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
Assemblywoman SHAVONDA E. SUMTER
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Permits flexible scheduling of private duty nursing services for eligible Medicaid recipients.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee on March 2, 2015, with amendments.
An Act concerning private duty nursing services covered by Medicaid and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. An individual eligible to receive private duty nursing services pursuant to N.J.A.C.10:60-5.1 et seq. may choose to schedule fewer hours of private duty nursing services in a 24-hour period than the individual is eligible to receive. Any service hours that the individual was eligible to receive but did not receive in a 24-hour period may be scheduled in a future 24-hour period, at the discretion of the individual and the private duty nursing service provider. Up to 24 service hours may be scheduled in a 24-hour period, provided that any service hours in excess of the number of service hours for which the individual is normally eligible to receive in a 24-hour period are drawn from the pool of unused service hours. Unused service hours may be accumulated in this way with no maximum, except that any unused service hours shall expire at the end of each month.
12. The Commissioner of Human Services shall apply for such State plan amendments or waivers as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this act and to secure federal financial participation for State Medicaid expenditures under the federal Medicaid program.1
1[2.] 3.1 The Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), in order to effectuate the purposes of this act.
1[3.] 4.1 This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month next following the date of enactment, but the Commissioner of Human Services may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
