ASSEMBLY, No. 2433

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 1, 2018

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  DANIEL R. BENSON

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Supplemental appropriation of $50 million from General Fund to DHS for substance abuse treatment and prevention.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


A Supplement to “An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016 and regulating the disbursement thereof,” approved June 26, 2015 (P.L.2015, c.63).

 

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

 

     1.    In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2015, c.63, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

54 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

20 Physical and Mental Health

23 Mental Health Services

GRANTS-IN-AID

09-7700 Addiction Services  ...........................................................

$50,000,000

Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,                                                                                                 

$50,000,000

      Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services..........

Grants-in-Aid:

 

 

09 Community Based Substance Abuse       

         Treatment and Prevention…………...

 

($50,000,000)

 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This supplemental appropriation provides $50 million from the General Fund to the Division of Addiction Services in the Department of Human Services for inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment program slots and outreach.