Bill Text: NJ A3286 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Restores income eligibility level for AIDS Drug Distribution Program to 500% of the federal poverty level.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-29 - Substituted by S2214 (1R) [A3286 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A3286-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3286

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 7, 2010

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CELESTE M. RILEY

District 3 (Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester)

Assemblyman  CRAIG J. COUGHLIN

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman  ALBERT COUTINHO

District 29 (Essex and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Restores income eligibility level for AIDS Drug Distribution Program to 500% of the federal poverty level.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee on December 6, 2010, with amendments.

  

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, 2011 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2010 (P.L.2010, c.35).

 

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

 

     1.    The following language on page 84 of P.L.2010, c.35 is amended to read as follows:

 

46 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES

20 Physical and Mental Health

21 Health Services

GRANTS-IN-AID

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, the amount hereinabove appropriated for the AIDS Drug Distribution Program shall be conditioned upon the following provision: the annual income eligibility for participation in this program shall not exceed [300] 500% of federal poverty level.  No funds shall be expended for recipients earning greater than [300] 500% of the federal poverty level.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately ¹and shall be retroactive to July 1, 2010¹.