SENATE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 565

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: MARCH 7, 1996

      The Senate Human Services Committee favorably reports Senate Bill No. 565.

      This bill provides for the adoption by the Commissioner of Human Services of specific standards of performance with respect to the administration of general public assistance, with which each municipal agency administering general public assistance shall be required to comply. The bill further requires that each agency which administers general public assistance be administered by a welfare director who has been certified in accordance with rules and regulations to be adopted by the commissioner. In addition, the bill provides that a person who shall have been employed as a welfare director by a municipal welfare agency for a period of at least five years and whose employment shall have been terminated by reason of the assumption of its activities and responsibilities by another agency, shall be transferred to that agency and be assigned duties comparable to those previously performed by that person.