Bill Text: NJ A932 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to DHS to develop community residences for Division of Developmental Disabilities clients on the waiting list.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Human Services Committee [A932 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-A932-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman DAVID W. WOLFE
District 10 (Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Supplemental appropriation of $5 million to DHS to develop community residences for Division of Developmental Disabilities clients on the waiting list.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved July 2, 2005 (P.L.2005, c.132).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2005, c.132, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:
54 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES 30 Educational, Cultural and Intellectual Development 32 Operation and Support of Educational Institutions 7601 Community Programs GRANTS-IN-AID |
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01-7601 Purchased Residential Care................................................ |
$5,000,000 |
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Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, |
$5,000,000 |
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Community Programs...................................................... |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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01 Group Homes...................................... |
($5,000,000) |
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2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill appropriates $5 million to the Department of Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities, to enable the division to develop additional community residential programs for persons on the division's waiting list.
The Governor's recommended FY 2007 budget provides $3.0 million in funds and up to $50 million in certain recoveries to the division to develop community programs for persons who currently reside in developmental centers and who have been determined eligible for community residential programs. No funds are provided to develop community programs for the over 3,600 clients in the Priority Category of the Residential Waiting List (December 2005).
The $5.0 million supplemental appropriation would enable the division to develop upwards of 13 community residential programs to provide services for between 50 and 80 clients.