Requires Department of Treasury and DHS to annually identify State funds available for NJ FamilyCare and child care services, evaluate programs, and create prioritized list of initiatives to improve quality of care under programs.*

The bill now covers both NJ FamilyCare and child care services, expanding from a single-program focus to two distinct areas of State spending.

The NJ FamilyCare fund identification requirement was broadened from funds available specifically for NJ FamilyCare to include any program that utilizes Medicaid funds, including but not limited to school-based health services reimbursed by Medicaid.

A new section requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Director of the Division of Family Development to annually report on unallocated State funds available for child care subsidy payments and evaluate the quality of child care services, compiling a prioritized list of 12 most urgent policy changes.

New definition of 'child care services' as services provided to eligible children certified by the Division of Family Development, for which State and federal funding is administered to provide subsidy payments to licensed child care providers or registered family day care providers.

Co-sponsors (Senators Ruiz and Wimberly) were added, and the bill was renumbered to reflect the new section structure (old Section 2 became Section 3, old Section 3 became Section 4).