Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE
District 19 (Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Returns Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to DHS.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act returning the State’s mental health and addiction prevention and treatment functions, powers, and duties to the Department of Human Services and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. All of the mental health and addiction prevention and treatment functions, powers, and duties of the Department of Health, including the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, that have been transferred, or are to be transferred, from the Department of Human Services pursuant to the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 001-2017, issued on June 29, 2017, shall be transferred back to the Department of Human Services.
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the second month next following the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill reverses the recent transfer of the State’s mental health and addiction prevention functions, powers, and duties, including the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, to the Department of Health, from the Department of Human Services. The transfer was effectuated by the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 001-2017, issued by Governor Christie on June 29, 2017. This bill returns those mental health and addiction prevention functions, powers, and duties, including the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services back to the Department of Human Services.
The Reorganization Plan became effective 60 days after its submission to the Legislature pursuant to The Executive Reorganization Act, N.J.S.A.52:14C-1. This bill would take effect on the first day of the second month next following the date of enactment.