Sponsored by:
Senator ROBERT M. GORDON
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Conditions appropriation for State professional boards on expenditure of budget allocation 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, 2016 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 26, 2015 (P.L.2015, c.63).
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.2015, c.63, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, is amended to read as follows:
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66 DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY 80 Special Government Services 82 Protection of Citizens' Rights DIRECT STATE SERVICES |
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15-1318 Operation of State Professional Boards |
[Of the] The amount hereinabove appropriated for Operation of State Professional Boards [for] 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 [there is allocated an amount not less than] , 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.
(cf: P.L.2015, c.63, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill amends budget language in the Fiscal Year 2016 annual appropriations act to ensure that the $250,000 allocated to the Board of Nursing by a legislative resolution is 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.
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. The division and the department have not moved forward with implementing the purpose of this budget language. This bill clarifies the language to compel the expenditure of the appropriation to achieve the purpose for which it was intended in the annual appropriations act.