Bill Text: NJ S2700 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Specifies that emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for victim of domestic violence would be funded by "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund."

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-19 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee [S2700 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-S2700-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2700

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 19, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  ANDREW ZWICKER

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Specifies that emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for victim of domestic violence would be funded by "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund."

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning domestic violence victims and amending P.L.2001, c.195. 

 

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

 

     1.    Section 3 of P.L.2001, c.195 (C.30:14-15) is amended to read as follows:

     3.    a. There is hereby established the "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund," a dedicated fund within the General Fund and administered by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families.  The fund shall be the depository of moneys realized from the civil penalty imposed pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2001, c.195 (C.2C:25-29.1) and any other moneys made available for the purposes of the fund.

     b.    All moneys deposited in the "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund" shall be used for direct services to victims of domestic violence, including, but not limited to[,]: shelter services[,]; emergency, transitional, and permanent housing; food; utilities; transportation costs; language access services; legal advocacy services[,]; [and] legal assistance services[,]; and for related administrative costs of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency.

(cf: P.L.2012, c.16, s.128)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately. 

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill specifies that the "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund" would fund emergency, transitional, and permanent housing; food; utilities; transportation costs; and language access services. 

     The "Domestic Violence Victims' Fund" is a dedicated fund within the General Fund and administered by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families.  The fund is the depository of moneys realized from the civil penalty imposed pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2001, c.195 (C.2C:25-29.1) on any person found by the court in a final hearing pursuant to section 13 of P.L.1991, c.261 (C.2C:25-29) to have committed an act of domestic violence.  The penalty ranges from $50 up to $500, and the fund is also the depository of any other moneys made available for the purposes of the fund. 

     Under current law, all moneys deposited in the "Domestic
Violence Victims' Fund" are used for direct services to victims of domestic violence including, but not limited to, shelter services and legal advocacy services.