New Jersey § 30:6d-32

§ 30:6d-32.

The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Community care residential providers for adults with developmental disabilities

in the State of New Jersey, as defined by N.J.A.C.10:44B-1.3 , provide an essential service by providing care and training to adults with developmental

disabilities; b. The State, through the Department of Human Services, is vested with the regulatory

authority, including but not limited to the establishment of reimbursement rates,

and the administrative oversight responsibility for the licensing of facilities and

operation of community care residential provider homes; c. Pursuant to its statutory and regulatory authority, the Department of Human Services

is authorized to contract with a qualified third party agency or entity to provide

oversight with respect to various administrative functions, including but not limited

to the processing of board payments and/or cost-of-care payments to community care

residential providers; d. To ensure quality standards of care, it is in the public interest for the State

to maintain community care residential provider homes for adults with developmental

disabilities and to encourage the recruitment and retention of community care residential

providers that are delivering these vital services; and e. A majority of community care residential providers have authorized the Communications

Workers of America, AFL-CIO (CWA) to be their exclusive representative through individually-signed

authorizations and the New Jersey State Board of Mediation has certified CWA to represent

community care residential providers.