ASSEMBLY COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 1001

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: OCTOBER 10, 1996

      The Assembly Community Services Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 1001.

            As amended by committee, this bill directs the Commissioner of Human Services to submit a plan, within 180 days, for the elimination of the Division of Developmental Disabilities' community residential and day program waiting lists by the year 2008 and to annually update the plan.

             The plan shall include:           statistical information on the current and projected increase in the waiting list; financial information on the capital funds necessary to eliminate the current and future waiting list by the year 2008; and financial information on the amount of additional State, federal and other funds that may be required annually for operating costs associated with eliminating the waiting list by the year 2008.

      In developing the plan, the commissioner shall conduct public hearings and obtain public input from persons with developmental disabilities or their families or guardians and providers of services to the developmental disabilities community.

      The committee amended the bill to extend the amount of time the commissioner would have to submit the plan from 120 days to 180 days after the effective date of the bill.