Bill Text: NJ A4718 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-26 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [A4718 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A4718-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4718

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 20, 2017

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  VINCENT MAZZEO

District 2 (Atlantic)

Assemblywoman  JOANN DOWNEY

District 11 (Monmouth)

Assemblywoman  GABRIELA M. MOSQUERA

District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblywoman  PAMELA R. LAMPITT

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  ANGELICA M. JIMENEZ

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

Assemblywoman  ELIANA PINTOR MARIN

District 29 (Essex)

Assemblywoman  SHAVONDA E. SUMTER

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  SHEILA Y. OLIVER

District 34 (Essex and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen Muoio, Jasey, McKnight, Pinkin, Jones, Chaparro, Tucker, Quijano, Watson, Caride, Assemblymen Greenwald, Coughlin, Eustace, Lagana, Singleton, Taliaferro, Caputo, Burzichelli and Houghtaling

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes FY 2018 supplemental appropriation of $7,453,000 to DOH for family planning services.

 

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, 2018 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved       , 2017 (P.L.2017, c. ).

 

     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.2017, c. , the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2018, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

46 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 20 Physical and Mental Health 21 Health Services GRANTS-IN-AID
02-4220 Family Health Services  ......................................................		$7,453,000
Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,		$7,453,000
Health Services ..........................................................
Grants-in-Aid:
02  Family Planning Services........................	($7,453,000)

 

      Of the funds hereinabove appropriated for Family Planning Services, no

            monies shall be expended on abortion procedures.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect on July 1, 2017.

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill proposes to supplement the Fiscal Year 2018 annual appropriations act by making an appropriation of $7,453,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Health for Family Planning Services grants. 

     Appropriations for these grants were eliminated in Fiscal Year 2011, and have not been reinstated.  The elimination of this funding resulted in both the closing of centers that provide family planning services and a reduction in the availability of such services, as the remaining sources of federal and private funding for the family planning centers were insufficient to maintain existing services.

     This bill restores State funding for family planning centers to previous levels, thereby increasing the availability of family planning services.  The bill also improves family planning centers' abilities to compete for additional federal Title X family planning grants, which fund no less than 90 percent of grant recipients' approved project costs and require a non-federal match of no more than 10 percent.

     The bill specifies that the funding may not be used for abortion procedures.