Advocacy Resource Archives

A3092 Requires state agencies update demographic data collection methods on Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian and Indian Diaspora residents of this State.

A4049 Provides for presumptive eligibility for home and community-based services and services provided through program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under Medicaid.

A4755 Permits behavioral and mental health care providers to operate within homeless shelters.

A4772 Concerns Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits during labor disputes. Requires some employers, such as nonprofit healthcare entities, to pay unemployment insurance and staff salaries during labor disputes.

A4913 Requires carriers to offer health care providers more than one method of payment for reimbursement

A4914 Establishes “Hospital at Home Act”

A5096 Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.

A5225 Provides for coverage of community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid

A5311 Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.

A5748 Amends definition of “participating county” under County Option Hospital Fee Program

A5757 Extends certain pay parity regarding telemedicine and telehealth for one year.

A5909 Revises workers’ compensation coverage for certain injuries to certain volunteer and professional public safety and law enforcement personnel.

S332 Requires notification to consumers of collection and disclosure of personal data by certain entities.

S524 Creates Mental Illness Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health services.

S723 Creates “New Jersey Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights Act.”

S783 - Establishes Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund; establishes requirements for proceeds from opioid settlements to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs. Creates a state Advisory Council.

S1033 Establishes the "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in the Department of Human Services (DHS).

S1662 Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.

S2369 Establishes minimum NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for traumatic brain injury special care nursing facilities; establishes enhanced NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for nursing facilities under certain circumstances; makes an appropriation.

S2389 Establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership

S2535 Requires health benefits coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants.

S2716 Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse claims for covered services submitted by clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists under certain circumstances.

S3275 Requires establishment of new State website with information on rights related to, and health benefits coverage for, reproductive health care services.

S3292 Prohibits persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits.

S3604 Authorizes use of healthcare platforms providing discounted prices for payment of prescription and non-prescription drugs or devices and for telehealth and telemedicine services.

S3929 Revises certain requirements for involuntary commitment for mental health treatment.

As part of NJAMHAA’s public policy platform, policy positions are developed in committee and adopted by the Board of Directors as a vehicle to create an external environment that enables NJAMHAA members to meet the needs of the 500,000 New Jersey children and adults with mental health and substance use disorders they serve annually.

FY 2016 Children Position Paper
Rate Setting Principles

Rate Setting Technical Paper

Physical and Behavioral Healthcare Integration

Diversion and Reentry from Corrections

Housing

Licensure Exemption

Regulatory Efficiencies