Sponsored by:
Assemblyman DANIEL R. BENSON
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Makes Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to Rutgers University - New Brunswick for School of Dental Medicine - Special Care Treatment Center.
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, 2020 and regulating the disbursement thereof, ” approved , 2019 (P.L.2019, c. ).
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.2019, c. , the annual State appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2020, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:
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74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development 36 Higher Educational Services 2410 Rutgers, the State University – New Brunswick GRANTS-IN-AID |
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82-2410 Institutional Support…………....................................... |
$250,000 |
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Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, |
$250,000 |
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Higher Educational Services........................................... |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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82 School of Dental Medicine – Special Care Treatment Center..…………………………... |
($250,000) |
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The amounts hereinabove appropriated for the School of Dental Medicine – Special Care Treatment Center shall be allocated for the purposes of hiring one additional dentist and paying for any costs associated with the addition of the dentist.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill makes a Fiscal Year 2020 supplemental appropriation of $250,000 from the General Fund to Rutgers University – New Brunswick for the School of Dental Medicine – Special Care Treatment Center. A language provision in the bill specifies that the funds provided under the bill are for the purposes of hiring an additional dentist for the Special Care Treatment Center and paying for any costs associated with the addition of that dentist.
The Special Care Treatment Center provides critical dental care to more than 4,000 patients with special needs each year. However, the center currently has an average wait time of approximately 18 months and hundreds of patients on its operating room waiting list. The funding provided under this bill for the hiring of an additional dentist will help the center decrease the wait time for treatment and increase the number of children and adults with special needs receiving essential oral care.