Bill Text: NJ A288 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-16 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A288 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A288-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 288

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  BRIAN E. RUMPF

District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)

Assemblyman  HERB CONAWAY, JR.

District 7 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblywoman  DIANNE C. GOVE

District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)

Assemblyman  NELSON T. ALBANO

District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Holzapfel, Wolfe, Diegnan, Assemblywoman McHose, Assemblymen Moriarty, Chiusano, Rumana, Peterson, Assemblywoman Coyle and Assemblyman Burzichelli

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Establishes Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program in DEP and appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on June 16, 2011, with amendments.

  

An Act establishing a Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program, supplementing Title 23 of the Revised Statutes and making an appropriation.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  There is established in the Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish and Wildlife, a Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program, which shall be based on a national program developed by the Future Fisherman Foundation that encourages school-aged children to avoid drug usage by providing alternative activities that involve learning to fish, appreciating aquatic and environmental resources, and developing positive life skills.  The division shall assign at least one full-time staff person to develop strategies for assisting school districts or other interested public service organizations in ¹[every county of the State in]¹ implementing this program ¹throughout the State¹.  Statewide program implementation shall be modeled after the pilot program implemented in Ocean County in calendar year 2000, which shall include, but not be limited to, the distribution of materials to promote and operate the program throughout the State.  ¹To the maximum extent possible, the division shall implement and operate the program in every county in the State.¹

     b.    The division shall work with educational, public safety and environmental groups in order to promote volunteerism among ¹[its members] these groups¹ for the purpose of acting as program instructors, mentors or advisors.  The division shall also work with public service organizations, sportsman groups and local merchants to encourage the donation of technical, material and financial assistance to the program.

 

     2.    The division shall collect and maintain data on the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program and provide an annual report to the Legislature ¹pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1),¹ including information on the number of school districts or municipalities that have implemented the program and the number of pupils that are participating in the program.  The report shall also include information on the effectiveness of the program in terms of drug usage avoidance or incidents among participating students.

 

     3.    The Department of Environmental Protection shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410
(C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.

 

     4.    There is appropriated the sum of $200,000 from the Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund, established pursuant to N.J.S.2C:35-15, to the Department of Environmental Protection to fund the cost of implementing the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program established pursuant to this act.  The Legislature, to the extent possible, shall ensure that sufficient appropriations from the Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund are included every year in the annual appropriations act to maintain the operation of the program.

 

     5.    This act shall take effect immediately.