ASSEMBLY, No. 4295
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED OCTOBER 27, 2016
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman ELIZABETH MAHER MUOIO
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO
District 20 (Union)
Senator STEPHEN M. SWEENEY
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Senator JAMES BEACH
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Coughlin, Assemblywoman Pinkin and Senator Allen
SYNOPSIS
Concerns emergency assistance which is repaid by the recipient.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As amended by the General Assembly on January 23, 2017.
An Act concerning emergency assistance payments and supplementing P.L.1997, c.14.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Commissioner of Human Services shall not count months of emergency assistance, which were repaid to a county or municipal agency, in accordance with the agreement to repay, toward a recipient’s time limit, as established by section 8 of P.L.1997, c.14 (C.44:10-51), for the receipt of emergency assistance.
2. The Commissioner of Human Services shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate the purposes of this act.
3. This act shall take effect 1[immediately] on the first day of the seventh month next following enactment, except the commissioner may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act1.