Bill > A4186

Introduced Session

This bill establishes, in but not of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs, the Veterans' Memorial Homes Oversight Board. The board will be independent of any supervision or control by the department or by any officer or employee thereof. For the purposes of this bill, the board will have oversight responsibilities for the Veterans' Memorial Home-Menlo Park, the Veterans' Memorial Home-Vineland, and the Veterans' Memorial Home-Paramus, and for any other veterans' memorial home that may be established after the effective date of this bill. The board will be composed of 12 members with the representative from the department being a non-voting member. The board will review, in accordance with the procedures set forth in the bill, violations reported, complaints filed, and investigations conducted at each memorial home to identify systemic issues and problems related to the operation of the memorial homes. The board will be provided with notice of violation reports, complaints filed, and investigations conducted at a veterans' memorial home that involve: the rights or dignity of an admitted person; physical, verbal, or mental abuse, deprivation of services necessary to maintain physical and mental health, or unreasonable confinement; poor quality of care, including inadequate personal hygiene and slow response to requests for assistance; improper transfer or discharge; inappropriate use of chemical or physical restraint; and quality of life.

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Vicky Flynn (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee (on 04/15/2024)

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