SENATE, No. 1279

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 25, 2014

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  RONALD L. RICE

District 28 (Essex)

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Weinberg

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes FY 2014 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10 million to Department of Community Affairs for Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 28, 2013 (P.L.2013, c.76).

 

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

 

     1.    In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2013, c.76, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

22  DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS  

50  Economic Planning, Development and Security

55  Social Services Program

GRANTS-IN-AID

50-8050 Community Programs ......................................................

$10,000,000

Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,                                                                                                  

$10,000,000

      Social Services Program  ..............................................

Grants-in-Aid:

 

 

50      Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund ....

($10,000,000)

 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a FY 2014 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10,000,000 to the Department of Community Affairs.

     The Lead Hazard Control Assistance Fund provides funding to address lead-based paint in New Jersey in a comprehensive and focused manner.  Programs include lead-based paint hazard control through lead abatement or interim controls; emergency relocation of households which include a child with an elevated blood lead level; extensive statewide, regional and community based education and outreach; training courses in lead disciplines such as lead-safe building maintenance practices; identification of lead-safe housing via a web-based Lead Safe Housing Registry available to the public; increases in identification of lead-based paint hazards and lead dust hazards via the distribution of free dust-wipe kits and purchasing X-ray fluorescence analyzers for use by local health departments.