Bill Text: NJ SR28 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Urges President and Congress to immediately enact legislation establishing veterans regional medical center in southern New Jersey. *

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-06-11 - Filed with Secretary of State [SR28 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-SR28-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE RESOLUTION No. 28

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 4, 2010

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)

Senator  JAMES BEACH

District 6 (Camden)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Whelan

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Urges President and Congress to immediately enact legislation establishing veterans regional medical center in southern New Jersey.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee on May 27, 2010, with amendments.

  

A Senate Resolution urging the President and Congress to immediately enact legislation establishing a veterans regional medical center in ¹[Cumberland County,] southern¹ New Jersey.

 

Whereas, There is currently no federal Department of Veterans Affairs inpatient veterans medical center in southern New Jersey, making it necessary for veterans needing inpatient care to travel long distances to northern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware; and

Whereas, The East Orange Veterans Medical Center, which is the largest health care facility serving veterans from southern New Jersey, has not been modernized in decades; and

Whereas, The federal Department of Veterans Affairs plans to close medical facilities in New York City that currently serve other veterans from southern New Jersey; and

     Whereas, ¹[Cumberland County is centrally located with regard to the] One of the eight¹ counties comprising southern New Jersey:  Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester ¹, Ocean¹ and Salem, ¹[making it] would make¹ an ideal location for an inpatient facility for veterans from southern New Jersey; now, therefore,

 

     Be It Resolved by Senate of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    This House urges the Congress of the United States to immediately pass, and the President to approve a law establishing a veterans regional medical center in ¹[Cumberland County,] southern¹ New Jersey.

 

     2.    A duly authenticated copy of this resolution, signed by the President of the Senate and attested by the Secretary of the Senate, shall be transmitted to the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority and minority leaders of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, the chair of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs, each member of the United States Congress elected from this State, and the Secretary of the federal Department of Veterans Affairs.