Sponsored by:
Senator RENEE C. BURGESS
District 28 (Essex and Union)
Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE
District 19 (Middlesex)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Zwicker
SYNOPSIS
Mandates Division of Developmental Disabilities service providers to complete workforce survey.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee on December 19, 2024, with amendments.
An Act concerning the Division of Developmental Disabilities service providers and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. 1a.1 In any year the New Jersey Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services participates in the National Core Indicators State of the Workforce Survey, or 1a1 similar survey as determined by the division, the division shall also distribute such survey to 1the division’s1 eligible service providers 1for persons with developmental disabilities1 . Any eligible provider of services for persons with developmental disabilities that does not complete the survey shall be subject to a fine of 1up to1 $5,000 per year, which penalty shall be collected by the Commissioner of Human Services in a summary proceeding before a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the provisions of the “Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999,” P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).
1b. If the division participates in, and distributes, a survey other than the National Core Indicators State of the Workforce Survey, the division shall be required to provide each of the division’s eligible service providers for persons with developmental disabilities a 90 days’ notice that a different survey is being utilized to meet the requirements of subsection a. of this section and the notice shall specify the type of survey.1
2. The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect on the first day of the third month next following enactment, except that the Commissioner of Human Services may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.