Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman VICTORIA A. FLYNN
District 13 (Monmouth)
Assemblyman GERRY SCHARFENBERGER
District 13 (Monmouth)
SYNOPSIS
Requires Division of Developmental Disabilities to reopen programs providing functional services to persons with developmental disabilities in same manner as schools.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the Division of Developmental Disabilities and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the contrary, the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services shall reopen all programs providing functional services to persons with developmental disabilities that ceased operations as a result of the Public Health Emergency declared by the Governor in Executive Order No. 103 of 2020 in the same manner and subject to the same procedures as those requiring schools to re-open and provide full-day, in-person instruction, including but not limited to, adherence to all appropriate health and safety standards delineated in Executive Order No. 175 of 2020.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services to reopen all programs providing functional services to persons with developmental disabilities that ceased operations as a result of the Public Health Emergency declared by the Governor in Executive Order No. 103 of 2020 under and subject to the same procedures as those requiring schools to re-open and provide full-day, in-person instruction, including but not limited to, adherence to the appropriate health and safety standards delineated in Executive Order No. 175 of 2020.