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A474 • 2026

Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.

Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Rodriguez, Gabriel
Last action
2026-02-12
Official status
Reported and Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.

Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.
  • Topic: Aging and Human Services Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-12 New Jersey Legislature

    Transferred to Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee

  2. 2026-02-12 New Jersey Legislature

    Reported and Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee

  3. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires DHS to establish system to ensure distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.
Topic:
Aging and Human Services
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A474 TR

ASSEMBLY, No. 474

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblywoman LUANNE M. PETERPAUL

District 11 (Monmouth)

Assemblywoman ANDREA KATZ

District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Verrelli, Miller, Assemblywoman
Reynolds-Jackson and Assemblyman Venezia

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires DHS to establish system to ensure
distribution of funds for certain support services for General Assistance
beneficiaries ceases upon beneficiary's exit from support service.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Assembly Oversight, Reform and
Federal Relations Committee with technical review.

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An Act
concerning support services for General Assistance
beneficiaries and supplementing Title 44 of the Revised Statutes.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.�
Notwithstanding any State law or regulation to the
contrary, the Commissioner of Human Services shall establish a process to
ensure that any funding distributed by the Division of Family Development or a
county welfare agency to a provider of substance use disorder treatment or
housing for support services rendered to a beneficiary of General Assistance
cash benefits ceases on the date in which the beneficiary is discharged from
the provider or is otherwise no longer receiving services from the provider.��

���� b.��� The
commissioner shall be authorized to:

���� (1)�� contact
a provider or a beneficiary to determine the date on which services, as
described in subsection a. of this section, ceased to be provided to the
beneficiary and on which funding for services provided by the division or a
county welfare agency shall discontinue; and

���� (2)�� require
a provider to repay the division or a county welfare agency for any funding
received by the provider for a beneficiary that was discharged from the
provider or was otherwise no longer receiving services from the provider.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.