Bill Text: NJ A965 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires State entities and agencies to provide child care services for full-time employees.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Children, Families and Food Security Committee [A965 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A965-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUNOZ
District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)
Assemblywoman ELIANA PINTOR MARIN
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
Assemblywoman MICHELE MATSIKOUDIS
District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman Dunn
SYNOPSIS
Requires State entities and agencies to provide child care services for full-time employees.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning child care services and supplementing P.L.1983, c.494 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a State entity or agency shall provide child care services for any full-time employee in any department, office, section, or other organizational component of the entity or agency who is in need of such services.
b. The child care services may be provided:
(1) in a building, structure, or any room therein owned by the State or under the custody of the State Joint Capitol Joint Management Commission which shall be licensed as a child care center pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.); or
(2) at a child care center licensed pursuant to P.L. 1983, c. 492 (C. 30:5B-1 et seq.) or a school age child care program, or at a family day care home approved by the Department of Children and Families pursuant to P.L. 1987, c. 27 (C. 30:5B-16 et seq.), or through alternative arrangements which are developed by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Commissioner of Children and Families.
c. As used in this section, "employee" means any employee in the Executive Branch or the Judicial Branch of the State government of New Jersey or any staff, assistant, and employee of the Legislature or any of its members in the member's official capacity, whether or not they receive compensation from the State of New Jersey.
2. Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedures Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Commissioner of Children and Families, shall adopt rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires a State entity or agency to provide child care services for full-time employee in any department, office, section, or other organizational component of the entity or agency who are in need of child care services.
Under the provisions of the bill, the child care services could be provided: in a building, structure, or any room owned by the State or under the custody of the State Joint Capitol Joint Management Commission, which would be licensed as a child care center in accordance with the provisions of P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.); or at a child care center licensed pursuant to P.L. 1983, c. 492 (C. 30:5B-1 et seq.) or a school age child care program, or at a family day care home approved by the Department of Children and Families pursuant to P.L. 1987, c. 27 (C. 30:5B-16 et seq.), or through alternative arrangements which are developed by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Commissioner of Children and Families.
As used in the bill, "employee" means any employee in the Executive Branch or the Judicial Branch of the State government of New Jersey or any staff, assistant, and employee of the Legislature. or any of its members in the member's official capacity, whether or not they receive compensation from the State of New Jersey.
