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.