ASSEMBLY, No. 3333

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

     Transfers Division of Food and Nutrition from Department of Agriculture to DHS.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

An Act concerning oversight of food and nutrition programs 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.  The Division of Food and Nutrition in the Department of Agriculture, together with its functions, powers, and duties, is hereby transferred to the Department of Human Services.  Whenever in any law, rule, regulation, order, contract document, judicial or administrative proceeding, or otherwise, reference is made to the Division of Food and Nutrition in the Department of Agriculture, the same shall mean and refer to the Division of Food and Nutrition in the Department of Human Services.

     b.    The transfer under this section shall be subject to the provisions of the “State Agency Transfer Act,” P.L.1971, c.375 (C.52:14D-1 et seq.).

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

     This bill transfers the Division of Food and Nutrition from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Human Services. 

     The Division of Food and Nutrition administers various food and nutrition assistance programs, including the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Special Milk Program, the Afterschool Snack Program, the Summer Food Service Program, the Child and Adult Day Care Food Program, the Family Day Care Program, the Commodity Food Distribution program, and the Emergency Food Assistance Program, among others.

     The transfers effectuated by the bill will take place immediately and be subject to the provisions of the “State Agency Transfer Act,” P.L.1971, c.375 (C.52:14D-1 et seq.), which sets forth standard requirements for transferring the funds, employees, rules and regulations, equipment, and property of, and actions or proceedings involving, a State agency that is subject to transfer from one instrumentality of the State to another.