Bill > S437

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This bill requires a children's psychiatric facility to provide daily care to and supervision of the children receiving treatment at the facility, and the agency administrator or home, program, or facility director is to designate staff members to be available and on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As used in the bill, "children's psychiatric facility" means a children's crisis intervention services, children's partial care program, psychiatric community home for children, psychiatric residential treatment facility, residential child care facility, or other out-of-home mental health treatment settings as defined in N.J.A.C.10:191-2. Children's group homes and juvenile detention centers are required to ensure that staff members are available and on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide continuous supervision of the children in such homes and centers. This bill would mandate that children's psychiatric facilities adopt the same staffing requirements as children's group homes and juvenile detention centers.

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Linda Greenstein (D)*,  Steven Oroho (R)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee (on 01/14/2020)

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