Bill Text: NJ S3868 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides categorical eligibility for subsidized child care services to certain child care workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-11-30 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S3868 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-S3868-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3868

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 15, 2023

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JOSEPH F. VITALE

District 19 (Middlesex)

Senator  M. TERESA RUIZ

District 29 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides categorical eligibility for subsidized child care services to certain child care workers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee on November 30, 2023, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning categorical eligibility for subsidized child care services and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

      1.   a.  As used in this act, "qualifying child care worker" means an educator or staff member who is employed, for a minimum of 20 hours per week, by a licensed child care center or registered family child care provider.

     b.    Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, a qualifying child care worker shall be eligible for child care services through the State's subsidized child care assistance program to the same extent as any other participant in the program, regardless of the family's annual household income.

     c.     The Commissioner of Human Services shall establish a process by which the ¹[department] Department of Human Services¹ shall confirm that a qualifying child care worker satisfies the employment criteria required to access the benefit established pursuant to this section.

     d.    The commissioner shall apply for such State plan amendments or waivers as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this act and to continue to secure federal financial participation for subsidized child care services for eligible families under the "Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990," Pub.L.97-35 (42 U.S.C. s.9857 et seq.), as amended.

     ¹[e. The commissioner shall adopt such rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.]¹

 

      ¹2.  The Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt such rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.¹

 

     ¹[2.] 3.¹     This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month next following the date of enactment, but the Commissioner of Human Services may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as may be necessary for the implementation of this act.

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