[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 760

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblywoman BUONO, Assemblymen ROMANO,

 Dalton and Barnes

An Act allowing recipients of the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Elderly and Disabled" program to designate third parties to receive certain notices and supplementing P.L.1975, c.94 (C.30:4D-20 et seq.).

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

    1. The Commissioner of ¹[Human] Health and Senior¹ Services shall permit recipients of the "Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled" program, established pursuant to P.L.1975, c.94 (C.30:4D-20 et seq.) to designate a third party to whom the commissioner shall transmit ¹eligibility¹ renewal and ¹[cancellation] termination¹ notices.

    The recipient shall notify the program that a third party has been so designated. The notification shall be delivered to the program by certified mail, return receipt requested, and shall be effective not later than 10 business days from the date of receipt by the program. The notification shall contain, in writing, an acceptance by the third party designee to receive ¹eligibility¹ renewal and ¹[cancellation] termination¹ notices from the program. If the third party designee desires to terminate the status as a third party designee, the designee shall provide written notice to both the program and the recipient. If the recipient desires to terminate the third party designation, the recipient shall provide written notice to the program.

    The transmission to the third party designee of any notice of ¹eligibility¹ renewal or ¹[cancellation] termination¹ shall be in addition to a copy of the document transmitted to the recipient and all notices transmitted to the third party shall be mailed in an envelope clearly marked on its face with the following: "IMPORTANT PAAD INFORMATION: OPEN IMMEDIATELY". The ¹eligibility¹ renewal or ¹[cancellation] termination¹ notice transmitted to the third party shall be governed by the same law and policy provisions which govern the notice being transmitted to the recipient. Designation as a third party shall not constitute acceptance of any liability by the third party for services provided to the recipient.

    The commissioner shall notify program recipients annually, in writing, of the availability of the third party designee notice procedures and provide information on how the recipient can commence this procedure; except that notice need not be provided once a recipient has made a designation.

    2. This act shall take effect on the 120th day following enactment.

Allows PAAD recipients to designate third parties to receive eligibility renewal and termination notices.