STATEMENT TO
[First Reprint]
SENATE, No. 35
with Senate Floor Amendments
(Proposed By Senators BASSANO and BRYANT)
ADOPTED: DECEMBER 16, 1996
These amendments make the following changes with respect to the administration of the proposed Work First New Jersey program:
-- clarify the definition of "county agency" as the county agency that was administering the aid to families with dependent children program at the time Pub.L.104-193 was enacted and which, upon the enactment of this bill, shall also administer the Work First New Jersey program in that county; and
-- prohibit a county agency from contracting with a private entity for the 12-month period following enactment of the bill.
-- delete the provisions allowing a recipient who elects to receive benefits at a point-of-sale location to be charged a check cashing fee.