SENATE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 94

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: MARCH 18, 1996

      The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 94 of 1996.

      Senate Bill No. 94 appropriates $500,000 to the Department of Human Services for various lead programs and activities to be provided through the Office for Prevention of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities' Interagency Task Force on the Prevention of Lead Poisoning. These funds supplement the $200,000 appropriated to the Department of Health in P.L.1995, c.164 for a Statewide lead poisoning education initiative.

FISCAL IMPACT

      This bill appropriates $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services for various lead programs and activities.