Bill Text: NJ A3980 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - Reported and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A3980 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3980-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ
District 33 (Hudson)
Assemblywoman LUANNE M. PETERPAUL
District 11 (Monmouth)
Assemblywoman ANDREA KATZ
District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning support services for General Assistance beneficiaries and supplementing Title 44 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Notwithstanding any State law or regulation to the contrary, the Commissioner of Human Services shall establish a process to ensure that any funding distributed by the Division of Family Development or a county welfare agency to a provider of substance use disorder treatment or housing for support services rendered to a beneficiary of General Assistance cash benefits ceases on the date in which the beneficiary is discharged from the provider or is otherwise no longer receiving services from the provider.
b. The commissioner shall be authorized to:
(1) contact a provider or a beneficiary to determine the date on which services, as described in subsection a. of this section, ceased to be provided to the beneficiary and on which funding for services provided by the division or a county welfare agency shall discontinue; and
(2) require a provider to repay the division or a county welfare agency for any funding received by the provider for a beneficiary that was discharged from the provider or was otherwise no longer receiving services from the provider.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Commissioner of Human Services to establish a process to ensure that any funding distributed by the Division of Family Development or a county welfare agency to a provider of substance use disorder treatment or housing for support services rendered to a beneficiary of General Assistance cash benefits ceases on the date in which the beneficiary is discharged from the provider or is otherwise no longer receiving services from the provider. Under the bill, the commissioner is authorized to: contact a provider or a beneficiary to determine the date on which services ceased to be provided to the beneficiary and on which funding for services provided by the division or a county welfare agency are to discontinue; and require a provider to repay the division or a county welfare agency for any funding received by the provider for a beneficiary that was discharged from the provider or was otherwise no longer receiving services from the provider.
