ASSEMBLY, No. 4548

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 15, 2018

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  YVONNE LOPEZ

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman  ANTHONY M. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Somerset)

Assemblyman  WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Amends Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations act to increase appropriation from “Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund” to DOH for certain grant purposes.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 


An Act amending the Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations act, P.L.2018, c.53.

 

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

 

     1.  The following language provision in section 1 of P.L.2018, c.53, the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2019, is amended to read as follows:

 

46 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

20  Physical and Mental Health

23 Mental Health and Addiction Services

4290 Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services

GRANTS-IN-AID

There is appropriated [$1,000,000] $2,000,000 from the “Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund” to the Department of Health for a grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.

(cf: P.L.2018, c.53, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill amends the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to increase the amount appropriated from the “Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund” to the Department of Health for a grant to the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.  A language provision in the enacted FY 2019 appropriations act provided that $1 million was to be appropriated from the Fund to the department for a grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, and this bill, if enacted, would double that amount to provide for a total appropriation of $2 million.

     New Jersey continues to battle an opioid crisis that is impacting all of its counties. Deaths from drug overdose and administrations of naloxone are at record highs, and in 2014, the State ranked sixth in the nation for the rate of emergency room visits due to opioid abuse or overdose.  In 2015, there was a drug-related death every 5.5 hours in the State. The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey provides public awareness campaigns and educational programs, through media, public health, and workplace initiatives that are essential to save lives and combat this crisis.