30:4E-2 - Task force; membership, duties; meetings; consultation with agencies, etc - New Jersey Statutes

30:4E-2.  Task force;  membership, duties;  meetings;  consultation with agencies, etc.
    a.  The Commissioner of Human Services shall organize an Interagency Task Force on Home Care Services, hereinafter known as the  "task force," which shall consist of the commissioner, the Commissioner of Health, the Commissioner  of Insurance and the Commissioner of Community Affairs or their designated  representatives.  The task force shall review and coordinate efforts among  departments to develop home health care and homemaker services and shall  consult on the propriety and effects of State and Federal home health care and  homemaker legislation, rules, and regulations.  The task force shall work  toward regulatory and legislative change which it feels will promote the  utilization of home health care and homemaker services as an alternative to  institutional care.

    b.  The task force shall meet as frequently as its business may require and  at least once in each calendar quarter of each year.

    c.  The task force shall consult on a regular basis with the Statewide Health Coordinating Council and with public and private nonprofit, proprietary,  and hospital based providers of home health care and homemaker services.  The  task force shall also consult with service consumers.

     L.1980, c. 35, s. 2, eff. June 12, 1980.