Bill Text: NJ A4059 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires notification for exhaustion of workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-07 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A4059 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A4059-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman PARKER SPACE
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Wirths
SYNOPSIS
Requires notification for exhaustion of workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning exhaustion of workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits and supplementing R.S.34:15-1 et seq. and P.L.1948, c.110 (C.43:21-25 et al.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, or the appropriate entity administering workers' compensation benefits if the benefits are not administered by the State, shall give written notification to any individual receiving workers' compensation benefits pursuant to R.S.34:15-1 et seq., of the date of the final exhaustion of all workers' compensation benefits for the individual, not less than four weeks prior to that date. The written notification shall include a referral for services from the Department of Human Services and any other appropriate State agency to counsel and assist the individual to obtain any resources which may be available for the individual and dependents of the individual, including assistance regarding housing, child care, food, mental health, addiction services, and health care coverage. The notification shall be distributed in a manner deemed by the commissioner to be the most practicable and cost effective, but that will ensure timely personal notification of each person.
2. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, or the appropriate entity administering temporary disability benefits if the benefits are not administered by the State, shall give written notification to any individual receiving temporary disability benefits pursuant to the "Temporary Disability Benefits Law," P.L.1948, c.110 (C.43:21-25 et al.), of the date of the final exhaustion of all temporary disability benefits for the individual, not less than four weeks prior to that date. The written notification shall include a referral for services from the Department of Human Services and any other appropriate State agency to counsel and assist the individual to obtain any resources which may be available for the individual and dependents of the individual, including assistance regarding housing, child care, food, mental health, addiction services, and health care coverage. The notification shall be distributed in a manner deemed by the commissioner to be the most practicable and cost effective, but that will ensure timely personal notification of each person.
3. This act shall take
effect on the first day of the third month next following enactment, except
that the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development may take any anticipatory
administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation
of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, or the appropriate entity administering benefits, to provide written notification to any individual receiving workers' compensation benefits of the date of the final exhaustion of all workers' compensation benefits for the individual, at least four weeks prior to that date.
Additionally, this bill requires the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, or the appropriate entity administering benefits, to provide written notification to any individual receiving temporary disability benefits pursuant to the "Temporary Disability Benefits Law," P.L.1948, c.110 (C.43:21-25 et al.), of the date of the final exhaustion of all temporary disability benefits for the individual, at least four weeks prior to that date.
The written notification will include a referral for services from the Department of Human Services and any other appropriate State agency to counsel and assist the individual to obtain any resources which may be available for the individual and dependents of the individual, including assistance regarding housing, child care, food, mental health, addiction services, and health care coverage.
Under current law, the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development is required to send a comparable notification for exhaustion of unemployment benefits, and this bill, if enacted, will require the commissioner to send out notification for the exhaustion of workers' compensation and temporary disability benefits as well.
