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S 3756

Mandates Division of Developmental Disabilities service providers to complete workforce survey.

2024-2025 Regular Session Introduced by Renee Burgess and 2 co-sponsors

New Jersey mandates disability service providers complete workforce surveys to assess staffing, compensation, and employment conditions across the developmental disabilities sector.

Reported out of Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
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Bill Summary · S 3756

Legislative bill overview

S 3756 mandates that all service providers operating under New Jersey's Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) complete a comprehensive workforce survey. The bill requires data collection on staffing patterns, compensation, qualifications, and other employment metrics across the developmental disabilities support sector. This represents a standardized data-gathering requirement to assess workforce conditions in a sector that serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Why is this important

The developmental disabilities workforce faces well-documented challenges including high turnover, low wages, and staffing shortages that directly affect service quality and continuity of care for vulnerable populations. Comprehensive workforce data is essential for policymakers to identify systemic problems, target interventions, and potentially inform future funding or regulatory decisions. The survey creates an evidence base for understanding whether these challenges require legislative or budgetary remedies.

Potential points of contention

  • Compliance burden and cost: Service providers may object to survey completion requirements as an unfunded administrative mandate, particularly smaller nonprofits with limited resources
  • Data sensitivity and privacy: Questions about what employment data gets collected, how it's stored, and who accesses it—balancing transparency with worker privacy concerns
  • Survey design and utility: Disagreement over what metrics are most important, whether the survey will actually drive policy improvements, and whether results will lead to meaningful action or simply gather dust

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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