Bill Text: NJ A2626 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Conditions fiscal year 2020 appropriation for State professional boards on expenditure of $250,000 to Board of Nursing to process and eliminate home health aide application backlog.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee [A2626 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A2626-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 2626

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 13, 2020

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Conditions fiscal year 2020 appropriation for State professional boards on expenditure of $250,000 to Board of Nursing to process and eliminate home health aide application backlog.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act to amend "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2019 (P.L.2019, c.150).

 

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

 

     1.    The following language provision in Section 1 of P.L.2019, c.150, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, is amended to read as follows:

 

66 DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY

80 Special Government Services

82 Protection of Citizens' Rights

 

DIRECT STATE SERVICES

 

The amount hereinabove appropriated for Operation of State Professional Boards shall be subject to the following condition: in addition to the allocation from the Operation of State Professional Boards for the operation of the Board of Nursing, the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting shall allocate an additional $250,000 to the Board of Nursing which shall be expended by the board during the fiscal year for the cost of hiring additional staff and other expenses necessary to process and eliminate the home health aide application backlog.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill adds budget language in the Fiscal Year 2020 annual appropriations act to ensure that $250,000 is allocated to the Board of Nursing for the cost of staff and other expenses necessary to process and eliminate the home health aide application backlog.

     This bill makes the appropriation for the operation of all the professional boards within the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety conditioned upon the $250,000 allocation being expended by the Board of Nursing to process and eliminate the home health aide application backlog.

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