Bill Text: NJ S2675 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that school districts and nonpublic schools may receive reimbursement for costs incurred on or after January 1, 2016 for testing school drinking water for lead.*

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-13 - Substituted by A4284 (1R) [S2675 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2675-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 2675

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 13, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

Senator  JAMES BEACH

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Turner

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides that school districts and nonpublic schools may receive reimbursement for costs incurred on or after January 1, 2016 for testing school drinking water for lead.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Education Committee on February 6, 2017, with amendments.

  

An Act to amend "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2016 (P.L.2016, c.10).

 

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

 

     1.    The following language provision in section 1 of P.L.2016, c.10, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, is amended to read as follows:

 

34 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development

31 Direct Educational Services and Assistance

STATE AID

03-5120 Miscellaneous Grants-in-Aid

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, the amount hereinabove appropriated for Lead Testing for Schools is subject to the following condition: amounts shall be paid to school districts ¹and nonpublic schools¹, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting, based on approved applications for reimbursement of the costs of: 1) testing school drinking water pursuant to program requirements established by the department, which shall be effective upon filing with the Office of Administrative Law; and 2) testing school drinking water on or after January 1, 2016, but prior to the department's filing of the program requirements with the Office of Administrative Law, if the testing that has been conducted meets or exceeds the program requirements established by the department.

(cf: P.L.2010, c.10, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.