Bill Text: NJ S2331 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Concerns contracting and licensing procedures for certain organizations under contract with DHS and DCF.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-23 - Substituted by A2366 (1R) [S2331 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S2331-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JENNIFER BECK
District 12 (Mercer and Monmouth)
Senator BARBARA BUONO
District 18 (Middlesex)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Greenstein
SYNOPSIS
Concerns contracting and licensing procedures for certain organizations under contract with DHS and DCF.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee on May 12, 2011, with amendments.
An Act concerning contracting for social services and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Commissioners of Human Services and Children and Families, or their designees, shall, to the extent practicable, collaborate to establish:
a. uniform contracting requirements for social service organizations that contract with the 1[Departments] Deparment1 of Human Services or 1the Department of1 Children and Families, or both, to provide services to clients of the departments. The requirements shall include, but not be limited to, uniform reporting procedures and uniform audit schedules;
b. centralized licensing review 1and licensing issuance1 procedures in which1:
(1)1 the Department of Human Services or 1the Department of1 Children and Families, as appropriate, shall review the credentials of a social service organization for the purpose of licensing the organization to provide specified services to clients of the applicable department, which review shall serve as the basis for issuing or renewing one or more licenses required by the 1[Departments] Deparment1 of Human Services or 1the Department of1 Children and Families, or both, to provide other services to clients of the departments;
1(2) in the case of a client receiving services from both the Department of Human Services and the Department of Children and Families, if the facility serving the client is licensed by one of the departments, the facility shall be deemed licensed by the other department;1 and
c. a multi-year contract to a social service organization that has exhibited a good compliance record with contracting requirements and licensing standards, as determined by the Commissioner of Human Services or 1the Commissioner of1 Children and Families, as applicable.
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the second month next following the date of enactment.
