New Jersey S 3808: Requires DHS to establish quality-based reimbursement system for registered family day care providers participating in Grow NJ Kids.

Bill Text

S3808 

SENATE, No. 3808 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 5, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� M. TERESA RUIZ

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

Senator� ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes ReadyReturn program; requires Taxation to 
prepare initial tax filing for certain taxpayers; requires several State 
agencies to use tax data to facilitate identification and enrollment for 
certain social services programs; makes an appropriation. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act requiring 
certain State agencies to use available data to streamline processes for 
individuals filing income tax returns and making public assistance applications, 
amending and supplementing various parts of the statutory law, and making an 
appropriation.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� (New Section)� The 
Legislature finds and declares that:

���� a.��� Each year, many 
low-income New Jersey residents do not file State or federal income tax returns 
because their annual income falls below the minimum threshold established for 
filing State and federal tax returns, and the residents do not realize that 
they may qualify for the federal and State Earned Income Tax Credit.� Other 
State residents may not file tax returns because: 1) the individuals have 
difficulty accessing requisite tax forms, 2) the taxpayers did not receive 
their tax documents in the mail, or 3) the individuals may find the task of 
completing and mailing State and federal tax returns to be overly time 
consuming or burdensome.� These taxpayers may be more likely to file a tax 
return if they had access to free assistance in preparing and filing State and 
federal tax returns. 

���� b.��� While New Jersey offers 
a broad range of social services programs to serve low-income residents, many 
individuals do not apply for all of the programs for which they qualify, for a 
variety of reasons, including, but not limited to:

���� (1)� individuals may be 
unaware of the range of programs for which they may qualify;

���� (2)� some individuals seeking 
social services may be discouraged by the need to complete separate and complex 
applications for each assistance program; and

���� (3)� many State residents find 
the task of locating and gathering the various income and financial information 
required to apply for each safety net program overly burdensome. 

���� c.��� The Division of Taxation 
within the Department of the Treasury has ready access to a taxpayer�s wage 
information, as reported to the division by the taxpayer�s employer. 

���� d.��� Residents of New Jersey 
would greatly benefit from a program that harnesses the State�s existing tax 
filing process to facilitate low income residents in accessing essential safety 
net benefits.

���� e.��� Such a program would 
ultimately increase State revenues, since it would increase the number of 
residents filing taxes, and would result in a savings to the State by creating 
efficiencies in enrolling residents in social services programs.

���� 2.��� R.S.54:50-9 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 54:50-9.� Nothing herein 
contained shall be construed to prevent:

���� a.��� The delivery to a 
taxpayer or the taxpayer's duly authorized representative of a copy of any 
report or any other paper filed by the taxpayer pursuant to the provisions of 
this subtitle or of any such State tax law;

���� b.��� The publication of 
statistics so classified as to prevent the identification of a particular 
report and the items thereof;

���� c.��� The director, in the 
director's discretion and subject to reasonable conditions imposed by the 
director, from disclosing the name and address of any licensee under any State 
tax law, unless expressly prohibited by such State tax law;

���� d.��� The inspection by the 
Attorney General or other legal representative of this State of the reports or 
files relating to the claim of any taxpayer who shall bring an action to review 
or set aside any tax imposed under any State tax law or against whom an action 
or proceeding has been instituted in accordance with the provisions thereof;

���� e.��� The examination of said 
records and files by the Comptroller, State Auditor or State Commissioner of 
Finance, or by their respective duly authorized agents;

���� f.���� The furnishing, at the 
discretion of the director, of any information contained in tax reports or 
returns or any audit thereof or the report of any investigation made with 
respect thereto, filed pursuant to the tax laws, to the taxing officials of any 
other state, the District of Columbia, the United States and the territories 
thereof, providing said jurisdictions grant like privileges to this State and 
providing such information is to be used for tax purposes only;

���� g.��� The furnishing, at the 
discretion of the director, of any material information disclosed by the 
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