ASSEMBLY, No. 2938

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

INTRODUCED MAY 8, 1997

 

 

By Assemblywoman POU

 

 

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, 1997 and regulating the disbursement thereof,” approved June 28, 1996 (P.L.1996, c.42).

 

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

 

    1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.1996, c.42, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

 

GRANTS-IN-AID

46 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES

 20 Physical and Mental Health

21 Health Services--Grants-In-Aid

03-4230 Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Health Services.. ....

$336,000

Grants:

 

 

  Urban rodent control....................................................................

($336,000)

 

 

      2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

STATEMENT

 

      This bill appropriates $336, 000 to the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide grants to the cities of Paterson, Camden, Jersey City and Newark for their urban rodent control programs. These funds will supplement federal Preventative Health and Health Services Block Grant funds of approximately $177,000. The past several appropriations acts did not provide State funds to supplement federal funds for this program. Without these funds, the cities of Paterson, Camden, Jersey City and Newark may have to curtail their programs, which could result in more areas of these cities begin infested with rodents.

                             

 

Appropriates $336,000 to DHSS for urban rodent control programs in the cities of Paterson, Camden, Jersey City and Newark.