SENATE, No. 262

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Senators GIRGENTI and BASSANO

An Act concerning the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center and supplementing chapter 47 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

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

    1. Prior to entering into any contract with a private entity, pursuant to the provisions of P.L. , c. (now pending before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. of 1995 or Assembly Bill No. of 1995), to provide for the treatment of persons committed to the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, the Department of Corrections shall enter into an agreement or contract with a qualified consultant to conduct a study of the treatment and services provided at the center and to provide recommendations concerning the treatment and services which should be provided at the center by a private entity and the most effective and efficient methods of privatizing that treatment and those services. The department also may request, as part of the contract or agreement, that the recommendations include a list of the private entities that the consultant deems capable and qualified to provide such treatment and services at the center.

    For the purposes of this act, a qualified consultant means a person who, by training or experience, is a recognized professional specializing in the psychological or psychiatric treatment and care of sex offenders or in the administration of such treatment and care in institutional settings.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill directs the Department of Corrections to conduct a study of the treatment and services provided to the inmates of the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC) before entering into any

contract which would result in a private entity providing that treatment and those services.

    Under the provisions of the bill, the department is to hire a qualified consultant to undertake a study of the treatment and services that are provided at the center and to submit recommendations concerning the treatment and services which should be provided and the most effective and efficient methods of privatizing that treatment and those services. The bill also permits the department to request, as part of those recommendations, a list of private entities the consultant deems qualified to provide treatment and services at the center.

    The bill defines a qualified consultant as a person who, by training or experience, is a recognized professional specializing the psychological or psychiatric treatment and care of sex offenders or in the administration of such treatment and care in institutional settings.

Requires DOC study before entering into contract for privatization of treatment at ADTC.