Bill Text: NJ A3508 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires child abuse reporting hotline maintained by DCPP to provide information on resources available to victims and families.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-09-19 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [A3508 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3508-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3508

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires child abuse reporting hotline maintained by DCPP to provide information on resources available to victims and families.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the child abuse reporting hotline maintained by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency and amending P.L.1971, c.437.

 

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

 

     1.    Section 5 of P.L.1971, c.437 (C.9:6-8.12) is amended to read as follows:

     5.    The Division of Child Protection and Permanency shall maintain, at all times, an emergency telephone service for the receipt of calls involving a report, complaint, or allegation of child abuse or neglect.  This emergency telephone service shall also provide information on resources available to the victims of child abuse or neglect and their families.

(cf: P.L.2012, c.16, s.25)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that the child abuse reporting hotline maintained by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP) provide information on resources available to the victims of child abuse or neglect and their families.  DCPP regularly contracts with community-based agencies throughout the State to provide a variety of services to children and families, including counseling, parenting skills classes, substance abuse treatment, in-home services, foster care, and residential placement.  It is critical for families to be made aware of these services so that they are empowered to break the cycle of abuse and protect the most vulnerable residents of New Jersey.