Bill Text: NJ S2594 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Provides State aid to counties and municipalities to fund transportation services for veterans to VA facilities; appropriates $500,000. *
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-01-23 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee [S2594 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2594-Amended.html
SENATE, No. 2594
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Senator PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.
District 18 (Middlesex)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Connors, Beck and Cruz-Perez
SYNOPSIS
Provides State aid to counties and municipalities to fund transportation services for veterans to VA facilities; appropriates $500,000.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee on November 10, 2016, with amendments.
An Act establishing a program to provide transportation to veterans' 1[medical centers] facilities1, supplementing Title 38A of the New Jersey Statutes, and making an appropriation.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall establish a program to 1[disperse] disburse1 State aid to counties and municipalities to provide transportation services to veterans 1[residing in a municipality located 30 miles or more from a United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical center]1.
b. A county or municipality receiving State aid pursuant to this section shall provide for the transportation of veterans, on vehicles having functioning bathroom facilities, to the nearest United States Department of Veterans Affairs 1[medical center] facility1 for receiving health care services, such as physician visits, laboratory services, hospitalization, and surgical care. A county or municipality may incorporate any State aid received pursuant to this section into an existing transportation service operated by the county or municipality to effectuate the purposes of this section.
c. There is annually appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs for State aid to counties and municipalities a sum necessary to provide for the services set forth in this section.
d. The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs the sum of $500,000 for the purpose of providing grants to counties and municipalities to purchase vehicles having functioning bathroom facilities to provide transportation services to veterans in accordance with this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
