§1 - C.30:1-1.2

& Note to 9:3A-5

§2 - Note

 

P.L.2011, CHAPTER 136, approved September 30, 2011

Assembly, No. 2366 (Second Reprint)

 

 

An Act concerning contracting for social services and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    The Commissioners of Human Services and Children and Families, or their designees, shall, to the extent practicable, collaborate to establish:

     a.     uniform contracting requirements for social service organizations that contract with the ¹[Departments] Department¹ of Human Services or ¹the Department of¹ Children and Families, or both, to provide services to clients of the departments.  The requirements shall include, but not be limited to, uniform reporting procedures and uniform audit schedules;

     b.    centralized licensing review ¹and licensing issuance¹ procedures in which¹:

     (1)¹ the Department of Human Services or ¹the Department of¹ Children and Families, as appropriate, shall review the ²[credentials of a social service organization] requirements² for the purpose of licensing the ²[organization] program² to provide specified services to clients of the applicable department, which review shall serve as the basis for issuing or renewing one or more licenses required by the ¹[Departments] Department¹ of Human Services or ¹the Department of¹ Children and Families, or both, to provide other services to clients of the departments;

     ¹(2) in the case of ²[a client receiving services from both the Department of Human Services and the Department of Children and Families, if the facility serving the client is licensed by one of the departments, the facility shall be deemed licensed by the other department;¹] an organization with programs licensed to provide services through both the Department of Human Services and the Department of Children and Families, each program shall be issued a license by a single department, to the extent practicable, in accordance with the agreed upon licensing issuance procedures;² and

     c.     a multi-year contract to a social service organization that has exhibited a good compliance record with contracting requirements and licensing standards, as determined by the Commissioner of Human Services or ¹the Commissioner of¹ Children and Families, as applicable.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the second month next following the date of enactment.

 

 

                                

 

     Concerns contracting and licensing procedures for certain organizations under contract with DHS and DCF.