Bill Text: NJ S2299 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to DCF for the Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0 million.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-25 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S2299 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S2299-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator BOB SMITH
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
Senator ANDREW ZWICKER
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to DCF for the Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0 million.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, P.L.2023, c.74.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The following item in section 1 of P.L.2023, c.74, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, is amended to read as follows:
16 DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
50 Economic Planning, Development, and Security
55 Social Services Programs
1630 Division of Family and Community Partnerships
GRANTS-IN-AID
03-1630 Family and Community Partnerships [$162,418,000]$163,918,000
Total Grants-in-Aid appropriation,
Social Services Programs .. [$162,418,000]$163,918,000
Grants-in-Aid:
03 Center for Great Expectations [($500,000)]($2,000,000)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill increases the FY2024 appropriation from the General Fund to the Department of Children and Families for the Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million, from $500,000 to $2.0 million. The Center for Great Expectations is located in Somerset and provides safe housing and supportive services to over 1,000 women, men, and children annually, from both within and outside Somerset. Many of these individuals are homeless or economically marginalized, pregnant or parenting, or living with mental health or substance use disorders. Importantly, the organization administers the State's only residential program for adolescents with mental health disorders, who are pregnant or parenting.
The additional State funds will be used to support the Center's adolescent residential program, the adult residential program for pregnant and at-risk women, and the outpatient substance abuse and mental health programs. All of these programs face a funding shortfall in the current fiscal year, which will be completely mitigated with the help of this additional State funding.
