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A2427
ASSEMBLY, No. 2427
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman TENNILLE R. MCCOY
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
���� Establishes Medication Management, Outreach, and
Support Program in DHS; appropriates $8 million.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
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An Act
establishing a Medication Management, Outreach, and Support Program in the
Department of Human Services, supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes and
making an appropriation.
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Be It Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� There is established a
Medication Management, Outreach, and Support Program in the Department of Human
Services for persons with severe and persistent mental illness living in the
community.� The purpose of the program is to provide these individuals with
accessible medication management services to enable them to live healthfully in
the community.
���� 2.��� The Medication
Management, Outreach, and Support Program shall provide licensed freestanding
and hospital-based public or private nonprofit provider organizations under
contract with the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in the
Department of Human Services with the resources to:
���� a.���� educate, counsel, and
support consumers of mental health services living in the community so that
early signs of problems are identified quickly and addressed;
���� b.��� enable physicians,
nurses, mental health professionals, consumer peers, consumers, and consumers'
families to work together to find a medication regimen that minimizes side
effects and truly encourages good health; and
���� c.���� achieve continuous
quality improvement goals.
���� 3.��� A licensed freestanding
or hospital-based public or private nonprofit provider organization under
contract with the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services in the
Department of Human Services may apply to the Commissioner of Human Services,
in the form prescribed by the commissioner, for a grant of funds to operate a
medication management program pursuant to this act.� The grant shall assist in
the hiring and retention of clinical staff including, but not limited to,
psychiatrists, advance practice nurses, social workers, mental health
counselors, and caseworkers as may be appropriate for the delivery of more
intensive medication management, outreach, after-hours coverage, early
intervention, crisis management, and support services as needed by consumers of
mental health services living in the community who are served by the provider
organization.
���� 4.��� The Commissioner of
Human Services shall seek to secure the use of such funds or other resources
from private nonprofit or for-profit sources or the federal government to
effectuate the purposes of this act, as may be available.
���� 5.��� There is appropriated
$8,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services to
effectuate the purposes of this act.
���� 6.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill establishes a
Medication Management, Outreach, and Support Program in the Department of Human
Services for persons with severe and persistent mental illness living in the
community.� The purpose of the program is to provide these individuals with
accessible medication management services to enable them to live healthfully in
the community.
���� The program shall provide
licensed freestanding and hospital-based public or private nonprofit provider
organizations under contract with the Division of Mental Health and Addiction
Services in the department with the resources to:
���� --educate, counsel, and
support consumers of mental health services living in the community so that
early signs of problems are identified quickly and addressed;
���� --enable physicians, nurses,
mental health professionals, consumer peers, consumers, and consumers' families
to work together to find a medication regimen that minimizes side effects and
truly encourages good health; and
���� --achieve continuous quality
improvement goals.
���� The bill provides that a
licensed freestanding or hospital-based public or private nonprofit provider
organization under contract with the division may apply to the Commissioner of
Human Services for a grant to operate a medication management program.� The
grant shall assist in the hiring and retention of clinical staff including, but
not limited to, psychiatrists, advance practice nurses, social workers, mental
health counselors, and caseworkers as may be appropriate for the delivery of
more intensive medication management, outreach, after-hours coverage, early
intervention, crisis management, and support services as needed by consumers of
mental health services living in the community who are served by the provider
organization.
���� The bill also provides that
the commissioner shall seek to secure the use of such funds or other resources
from private nonprofit or for-profit sources or the federal government to
effectuate the purposes of the bill, as may be available.
���� The bill appropriates
$8,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Human to effectuate the
purposes of this bill.