Sponsored by:
Senator RONALD L. RICE
District 28 (Essex)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Turner
SYNOPSIS
Overrides Governor's line-item veto of budget language concerning the reporting of the adequacy of general educational development programs in the Department of Corrections.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Concurrent Resolution overriding a line-item veto of budget language concerning the reporting of the adequacy of general educational development programs in the Department of Corrections.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the General Assembly concurring):
1. That the following language provision, on page 48 of Senate Bill No. 4000 of 2011 (P.L.2011, c.85) which was the subject of objection by the Governor in the Governor's veto statement of June 30, 2011, be restored to law as follows, the objections thereto of the Governor notwithstanding:
26 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
10 Public Safety and Criminal Justice
16 Detention and Rehabilitation
DIRECT STATE SERVICES
08-7025 Institutional Care and Treatment
From the amount hereinabove appropriated to the Department of Corrections, the Commissioner of Corrections shall prepare a report on the adequacy of general educational development programs, provided by the Department of Corrections. The report shall include the number of inmates enrolled in general educational development programs by institution, the number of inmates that have completed general educational development programs in 2010 and 2011, and the number of inmates that have reached a ninth grade proficiency level. The report shall be submitted to the chairs of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Assembly Budget Committee no later than September 1, 2011.
2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be delivered to the Governor, the State Treasurer and the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections.
STATEMENT
This resolution restores language concerning the reporting of the adequacy of general educational development programs provided by the Department of Corrections. This language proposed for inclusion in the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2012 would assist the Legislature's budget committees in obtaining from the Department of Corrections useful reports on the adequacy of general educational development programs provided by the Department of Corrections. This language was eliminated by the Governor's line-item veto.