Bill Text: NJ S229 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S229 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S229-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 229

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  BOB SMITH

District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $450,000 for Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act appropriating $450,000 from the "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" for the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.

 

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

 

     1.    There is appropriated the sum of $450,000 from the "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund," established pursuant to subsection c. of N.J.S.2C:35-15 to the Department of Environmental Protection to fund the cost of implementing the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program established pursuant to P.L.2012, c.46 (C.23:2-13 et seq.).  The Legislature, to the extent possible, shall ensure that sufficient appropriations from the "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" or any other appropriate source are provided annually to maintain the operation of the program.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     The bill appropriates $450,000 to the Department of Environmental Protection to fund the cost of implementing the Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs Program.  The money would be appropriated from the "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund," a statutory account established to receive fines and penalties from convicted drug offenders that are used to support State-authorized drug and alcohol abuse abatement programs.  The bill encourages the Legislature to appropriate sufficient funding annually from the "Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund" or any other appropriate source to maintain the operation of the program in future years.