Bill Text: NJ A4863 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes disaster relief grant program to provide municipalities with training, supply stockpiles, and technology to assist residents with certain applications; appropriates $5 million.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-12-08 - Reported and Referred to Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee [A4863 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A4863-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4863

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 14, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  ELLEN J. PARK

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen McKnight, Jaffer and Assemblyman Stanley

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Establishes disaster relief grant program to provide municipalities with training, supply stockpiles, and technology to assist residents with certain applications; appropriates $5 million.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on December 8, 2022, with amendments.

  

An Act establishing a disaster relief grant program, supplementing Appendix A, and making an appropriation.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  There is established a disaster relief program in the Division of ¹[Local Government Services] Disaster Recovery and Mitigation¹ in the Department of Community Affairs for the purposes of establishing a grant program to provide municipalities with training, supply stockpiles, and technology to be used to assist residents with disaster relief applications and other paperwork, as appropriate.  The Division of ¹[Local Government Services] Disaster Recovery and Mitigation¹ shall consult with the State Office of Emergency Management to set guidelines for the program.

     b.    The Office of Emergency Management, in consultation with the Division of ¹[Local Government Services] Disaster Recovery and Mitigation¹, shall establish:

     (1)   an application process for a municipality to access grant monies for the purposes of providing training, technology, and supply stockpiles;

     (2)   guidelines for priority in disbursals according to the Office of Emergency Management's risk assessment score for each municipality;

     (3)   training guidelines for municipal employees who will assist residents with disaster relief paperwork and other paperwork as appropriate; and

     (4)   guidelines for supply stockpiles as appropriate for each municipality according to its municipal master plan.

     c.     The division shall disburse grants to municipalities pursuant to guidelines promulgated in accordance with subsection b. of this section.  A grant to a municipality shall not exceed $30,000.

     d.    One year after the initial disbursement of grant money, the municipality shall be required to submit a report to the Division of ¹[Local Government Services] Disaster Recovery and Mitigation¹ , the Office of Emergency Management, the Governor, and the Legislature, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), regarding how grant funds were utilized, the current risks foreseen by the municipality, and to provide data on how the grant money has improved the emergency preparedness and response capacity of the municipality.

 

     2.    There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division
of ¹[Local Government Services] Disaster Recovery and Mitigation in the Department of Community Affairs¹ the sum of $5,000,000 for the purposes set forth in section 1 of this act.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.