Bill Text: NJ S189 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires Adjutant General to consider need for inpatient hospice care for admission to veterans' facilities; permits waiver of State residency requirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Withdrawn from Consideration [S189 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S189-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
218th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator CHRIS A. BROWN
District 2 (Atlantic)
SYNOPSIS
Requires Adjutant General to consider need for inpatient hospice care for admission to veterans' facilities; permits waiver of State residency requirement.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning admission to veterans' facilities in the State and amending P.L.1989, c.162.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 2 of P.L.1989, c.162 (C.38A:3-6.4) is amended to read as follows:
2. Subject to the provisions of this act, the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs is authorized, directed and empowered to take such actions, and to issue such reasonable rules and regulations, as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this act, including specifically the following:
a. To provide standards and procedures for application and determination of eligibility for admission to veterans' facilities;
b. To establish standards and methods for designating the veterans' facility in which an eligible person shall receive care and treatment consistent with available services and individual needs and circumstances;
c. To establish standards of care, treatment and discipline governing the relationships between the veterans' facilities and persons admitted thereto;
d. To establish standards and procedures for determination and payment of such amounts, if any, which members shall be required to contribute toward the cost of care and treatment in accordance with their financial ability, basing such determination upon a formula of financial ability to pay promulgated annually, provided, however, that the amount so determined shall first be approved by the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury; and
e. To negotiate and enter into agreements or contracts with the Veterans Administration or any other appropriate State or federal agency, and to organize the work of the veterans' facilities, giving due regard to the opinion of the advisory councils, in any manner consistent with law to comply with the reasonable requirements of such State and federal agencies, in order to secure the maximum financial assistance and services for carrying out the purposes of this act.
In providing standards and procedures for application and determination of eligibility for admission to veterans' facilities, as set forth in subsection a. of this section, the Adjutant General shall consider the need for inpatient hospice care of a veteran or disabled veteran and may waive, when appropriate, any State residency requirement that would otherwise prevent such a veteran or disabled veteran from admission to a veterans' facility.
(cf: P.L.1989, c.162, s.2)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Adjutant General to consider the need for inpatient hospice care of a veteran or disabled veteran when providing standards and procedures for application and determination of eligibility for admission to a veterans' facility. The bill also permits the Adjutant General to waive any State residency requirement that would prevent such a veteran or disabled veteran from admission to a veterans' facility in the State.
