Assembly Housing, State & Local and Aging & Senior Services Committees to Meet Thursday
Assembly Housing, State & Local and Aging & Senior Services Committees to Meet Thursday
(TRENTON) – Three Assembly panels will convene Thursday to review legislation concerning tenant vouchers, long-term care facilities, and vote-by-mail. The committees begin at 10 a.m.
The Assembly Aging and Senior Services Committee and the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee will meet jointly on Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 10:00 AM in Committee Room 11, 4th Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, New Jersey.
Bills for discussion only:
| A-4007
Vainieri Huttle/McKnight/ Murphy (pending referral) |
Requires DOH to implement and oversee Isolation Prevention Project in long-term care facilities during public emergencies. |
| A-4476
Vainieri Huttle/Greenwald |
Establishes certain requirements concerning State’s preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. |
| A-4477
Chiaravalloti/Conaway/ Downey |
Revises licensure, operational, and reporting requirements for long-term care facilities. |
| A-4478
Vainieri Huttle/Speight |
Establishes additional requirements for DOH to assess sanctions and impose penalties on long-term care facilities; revises reporting requirements for facilities. |
| A-4479
Vainieri Huttle/ Greenwald/Jasey
|
Provides supplemental payments to long-term care facility staff providing direct care services during COVID-19 pandemic. |
| A-4480
Mejia/Pinkin/Pintor Marin |
Requires DHS to review various aspects of Medicaid managed care program. |
| A-4481
Moen/Sumter/Quijano |
Establishes New Jersey Task Force on Long-Term Care Quality and Safety. |
| A-4482
Tucker/Giblin/Chaparro |
Establishes minimum wage requirements for certain long-term care facility staff; establishes direct care loss ratio requirements for nursing homes. |
| A-4483
Lopez/Carter/McKnight |
Allows long-term care facility employees to accrue paid sick leave. |
The Assembly Housing Committee will meet at 11:00 AM. The following bill(s) will be considered:
| A-1533
Spearman/ Reynolds-Jackson |
Requires reservation of portion of tenant-based vouchers under State rental assistance program for persons displaced due to redevelopment of an affordable housing development; provides displaced persons with affordable housing priority status. |
| A-3396
Reynolds-Jackson/ Verrelli/Pinkin |
Encourages timely recording of residential deeds. |
| A-3957
Wimberly/ Vainieri Huttle/Sumter S-2362 Singleton/Addiego |
Makes FY 2020 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to DCA for NJSHARES – S.M.A.R.T. Program. |
| AR-112
Murphy |
Opposes Department of Housing and Urban Development’s proposed changes to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. |
| A-4485
Vainieri Huttle/ Greenwald/Wimberly
|
Dedicates personal protective equipment to long-term care facilities during public health emergency. |
The Assembly State and Local Government Committee will meet remotely on at 1:00 PM.
The following bill(s) will be considered:
| A-1649
Quijano (pending referral) |
Prohibits posting or publishing on Internet home address or telephone number of certain judges and prosecutors. |
| A-2060
Pintor Marin/Munoz, N/ Schaer S-698 Ruiz/Scutari/Cunningham |
Allows public office holder or candidate to use political contributions to pay for child care expenses related to office or campaign activities. |
| A-3143
Kennedy (pending referral) S-2419 (1R) Scutari (pending referral)
|
Concerns local government regulation of installation, maintenance and repair of perimeter fence intrusion protection systems, other alarm systems, and locksmithing services. |
| A-4259
Chiaravalloti/Pinkin/ Zwicker (pending referral) |
Allows office of municipal clerk to receive voted mail-in ballots and applications for those ballots by hand delivery; extends deadline for mail-in ballots to be received and canvassed. |
| A-4276
Zwicker/Benson/Conaway |
Establishes “The Ballot Cure Act” to modify and establish various voting procedures. |
| A-4320
Zwicker/Benson/Freiman (pending referral) |
Requires certain information to increase public awareness and use of voting by mail; extends deadline for mail-in ballots to be received and canvassed; requires certain mail-in ballots to be retained. |
| A-4475
Reynolds-Jackson/ Benson/Caputo |
Requires county boards of election to establish ballot drop boxes in each county at least seven days before election. |
A-4528 DeAngelo State procurement process-revises cert aspects, permits auction/reverse auction
Video and audio live stream of the committee is available: https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp?SESSION=2020.
The full agendas can also be found here.
Due to the public health emergency, the State House Annex remains closed to visitors and the public will not be allowed to attend the meeting in person. The committees will take oral testimony on bills, by telephone and/or video, limited to three minutes.
