Bill Text: NJ A4718 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
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
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:
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46 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 20 Physical and Mental Health 21 Health Services GRANTS-IN-AID |
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02-4220 Family Health Services ...................................................... |
$7,453,000 |
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Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, |
$7,453,000 |
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Health Services .......................................................... |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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02 Family Planning Services........................ |
($7,453,000) |
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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.
