S2823

An Act to Amend "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved , 2018 (P.L.2018, c. ).

Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. The following appropriations table in section 1 of P.L.2018, c. , the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2019, is amended to read as follows:

74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE *30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development* *37 Cultural and Intellectual Development Services* DIRECT STATE SERVICES
05-2530 Support of the Arts …………………………………………		$405,000
06-2335 Museum Services …………………………………………..		2,242,000
07-2540 Development of Historical Resources ….............................		789,000
Total Direct State Services Appropriation,		$3,436,000
Cultural and Intellectual Development Services ...................		$3,436,000
*Direct State Services*:
Personal Services:
Salaries and Wages ……………………...	($2,450,000)
Materials and Supplies ……………………	(92,000)
Services Other Than Personal ……………	(300,000)
Maintenance and Fixed Charges …………	(94,000)
Special Purpose:
07 New Jersey Historical Commission – Celebration of America ………………….	(500,000)

2. The following language provision in section 1 of P.L.2018, c. , the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2019, is amended to read as follows:

94 INTERDEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNTS

70 Government Direction, Management, and Control

74 General Government Services

9420 Other Interdepartmental Accounts

GRANTS-IN-AID

The amount hereinabove appropriated for Direct Support Professionals Wage Increase shall be used to provide a wage increase to each direct support professional who provides children’s behavioral health services [and] or assists children [and] or adults with intellectual [and] or developmental disabilities under a provider [contracts] contract or fee-for-service agreement with the Department of Children and Families, the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services, [and] or the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The Commissioner of Human Services shall, effective July 1 2018, increase Community Care Program and Supports Program reimbursement rates for the following service categories: Career Planning, Community Based Supports, Community Inclusion Services, Day Habilitation, Individual Supports, Prevocational Training, Respite, and Supported Employment. The increased rates for these eight identified services in the Supports Program and Community Care Program shall be used to calculate an increase to individual participant budgets in order to support the same level of service. The Commissioner of Children and Families [, the Commissioner of Human Services,] and the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall each modify service provider contracts or fee-for-service rates as necessary to ensure receipt of [this] a wage increase by each direct support professional beginning October 1, 2018 , and require that each direct support professional receives the same percentage wage increase. Amounts shall be transferred to departments and divisions contracting with community care providers in order to provide the appropriate upward contract adjustment. [Contract adjustments to all eligible providers shall ensure that each direct support professional receives the same percentage wage increase.] No later than October 1, 2018, the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting shall submit a report to the Joint Budget Oversight Committee detailing, for each department and division: the specific community care providers that will receive an upward contract adjustment in FY2019; for each provider receiving an upward adjustment, the direct support professional wage base dollar amount upon which each contract adjustment was calculated and the dollar amount of the upward contract adjustment to be received in FY2019; the sum of the contract bases of all community providers receiving an upward adjustment; an explanation of how the amounts associated with the upward contract adjustment were calculated; and the manner in which the department or division administering each contract will ensure that the contract adjustment will be used to provide increased payments to direct support professionals.

3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018, but shall remain inoperative until the enactment into law of the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, P.L.2018, c. .

STATEMENT

This bill makes corrections to the FY 2019 Appropriations Act due to technical errors in drafting. Specifically, it inserts missing text to specify that $500,000 of appropriations already included in the Department of State are intended for the New Jersey Historical Commission – Celebration of America. It also modifies language concerning the allocation of $20 million for direct support professionals wage increases. In both cases, changes correct the Appropriations Act to match what the sponsors had originally intended, and to match the “score sheet” documents made available by the Office of Legislative Services upon introduction of the appropriations bill, which are often used by members of the Legislature and the public as summaries of the lengthy appropriations bill.