Bill Text: NJ A1652 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment, Natural Resources, and Solid Waste Committee [A1652 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1652-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 1652

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  PAMELA R. LAMPITT

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblyman  ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman  ERIK K. SIMONSEN

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Rumpf, Conaway, Guardian, Assemblywoman Swift, Assemblymen DiMaio and McClellan

 

 

 

 

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.