Bill Text: NJ A1902 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Increases maximum number of respite care service hours funded through DCF for certain families
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-12-11 - Received in the Assembly, 2nd Reading on Concurrence [A1902 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A1902-Amended.html
[Third Reprint]
ASSEMBLY, No. 1902
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
220th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2022 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman P. CHRISTOPHER TULLY
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblywoman LISA SWAIN
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblywoman ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT
District 31 (Hudson)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Benson, Assemblywomen Mosquera, Murphy, Speight and Jasey
SYNOPSIS
Increases maximum number of respite care service hours funded through DCF for certain families.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on November 30, 2023, with amendments.
An Act concerning respite care 3[2[and] ,2] and3 supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes3[2, and making an appropriation2]3.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The family of a child that is eligible to receive respite care services for the child, which services are funded through the Division of the Children's System of Care in the Department of Children and Families, shall be eligible to receive no more than 1[30] 901 hours of respite care 1[each calendar month] services, provided by either an agency-hired or self-hired respite worker, over a 90-day period,1 through funding provided by the department.
b. The Commissioner of Children and Families shall use available State and federal funds to effectuate the provisions of subsection a. of this section.
c. 3[2There are hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Children and Families $13,000,000 to effectuate the provisions of this act.
d.2]3 As used in this act 1[, "respite]:
"Agency-hired respite worker" means a respite care worker who is recruited, trained, and employed by a qualified agency under contract with the Department of Children and Families.
"Respite1 care" means the provision of temporary, short-term care for, or the supervision of, an eligible child on behalf of the caregiver, in emergencies or on an intermittent basis to relieve the daily stresses and demands of caring for a child with a functional impairment. Respite care may be provided hourly 1[,] or1 daily, 1[overnight, or on weekends,]1 may be 1[paid] provided by an agency-hired or self-hired respite worker1 or 1by a1 volunteer, but may not exceed service and cost limitations as determined by the Commissioner of Children and Families.
1"Self-hired respite worker" means a respite care worker who is recruited, trained, and paid directly by a family of a child that is eligible for respite care services.1
2. The Commissioner of Children and Families shall adopt rules and regulations, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), as are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
