Bill Text: NJ A3291 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations act to increase appropriation from "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" to DOH for certain grant purposes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-25 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A3291 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A3291-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
Amends Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations act to increase appropriation from "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" to DHS for certain grant purposes.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act amending the Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations act, P.L.2019, c.150.
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.2019, c.150, the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2020, is amended to read as follows:
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46 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES 20 Physical and Mental Health 23 Mental Health and Addiction Services 4290 Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services GRANTS-IN-AID
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There is appropriated [$1,000,000] $2,000,000 from the "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" to the Department of Human Services for a grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.
(cf: P.L.2019, c.150, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill amends the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 to increase the amount appropriated from the "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" to the Department of Human Services for a grant to the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. A language provision in the enacted FY 2020 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. In 2017, the State recorded 12,640 drug-related hospital visits, up from 7,408 in 2015. Furthermore, in 2017, there was a drug-related death every 3.2 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.
