Bill Text: NJ A3881 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to Department of Law and Public Safety for public awareness campaign of victims' rights and VCCO assistance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-23 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A3881 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A3881-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3881

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 23, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes supplemental appropriation of $750,000 to Department of Law and Public Safety for public awareness campaign of victims' rights and VCCO assistance.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

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, 2020 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2019 (P.L.2019, c.150).

 

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

 

     1.    In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2019, c.150, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

66 DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY 80 Special Government Services 82 Protection of Citizens' Rights   GRANTS-IN-AID
19-1440 Victims of Crime Compensation Office  .............................		$750,000
Total Grants-In-Aid Appropriation,		$750,000
Victims of Crime Compensation Office...........................
Grants-In-Aid:
19   Public Awareness Campaign: Crime Victim's Bill of Rights and VCCO Assistance ................	($750,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $750,000 from the General Fund to the Victims of Crime Compensation Office (VCCO) in the Department of Law and Public Safety for a public awareness campaign to inform victims of the provisions of the Crime Victim's Bill of Rights and of the availability of compensation and other assistance from VCCO.