FY 2004 STATE BUDGET ADDICTION PREVENTION AND TREATMENT SUMMARY ANTICIPATED RESOURCES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR GENERAL FUND

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1 No Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, Hamilton, NJ Tel.: 609/ l FAX 609/ POLICY REPORT FY 2004 STATE BUDGET ADDICTION PREVENTION AND TREATMENT SUMMARY Governor James McGreevey signed the New Jersey state budget on July 1, It appropriates $24,003,161,000 in state funds and $9,918,463,752 in federal funds for fiscal year The following appropriations were included for programs and services dealing with addiction prevention and treatment. ANTICIPATED RESOURCES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR GENERAL FUND Undesignated Fund Balance, July 1, 2003 $250,000,000 Major Taxes Cigarette 635,000,000 Alcoholic Beverage Excise 83,000,000 Tobacco Products Wholesale Sales 13,000,000 Miscellaneous Taxes, Fees, Revenues Department of Law and Public Safety: Controlled Dangerous Substances 100,000 Department of Transportation: Drunk Driving Fines 350,000 Inter-fund Transfers Tobacco Settlement Fund 1,612,022,000 Federal Revenue Department of Education: Drug Free Schools and Communities Administration 8,250,000 Drug Free Schools and Communities Discretionary 281,000 Safe and Drug Free Schools 3,487,000 Department of Health and Senior Services: Comprehensive State Based Tobacco Use Prevention Programs 1,300,000 Substance Abuse Block Grant 51,385,000 Department of Law and Public Safety: Combat Underage Drinking Discretionary 400,000

2 Combating Underage Drinking 360,000 Domestic Marijuana Eradication Suppression Program 280,000 Drug Enforcement Administration and Grants 14,028,000 Drunk Driver Prevention 1,000,000 High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area 250,000 Residential Treatment for Substance Abuse 1,600,000 Department of Military and Veterans Affairs: New Jersey National Guard Counter Drug Program Interservice State Federal 12,000 LEGISLATURE Office of Legislative Services The Office of Legislative Services shall monitor, review and report to both houses of the Legislature on each new antismoking initiative funded in fiscal years 2001, 2002 and 2003 from the Tobacco Settlement Funds. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural Resources, Planning and Regulation An amount equal to receipts generated at the rate of $0.47 per gallon of wine, vermouth and sparkling wine sold by plenary winery and farm winery licensees are appropriated to the Department of Agriculture from the alcoholic beverage excise tax for expenses of the Wine Promotion Program. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS System-Wide Program Support Drug Interdiction Unit State Match 44,000 Drug Testing Assumption of Federal Funding 314,000 South Woods State Prison Nuway Drug Treatment Program 900,000 Northern State Prison Northern Therapeutic Community State Match 53,000 Garden State Youth Correctional Facility State Match Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Grant 268,000 Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility Byrne Grant Therapeutic Community Program 82,000 Public Safety and Criminal Justice Parole: Parolee Drug Treatment 2,309,000 Grants-in-Aid: Re-entry Substance Abuse Program 2,145,000

3 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES Health Services Addiction Services 10,487,000 School Based Programs and Youth Anti-Smoking 6,000,000 Anti-Smoking Programs 4,000,000 The Division of Addiction Services is authorized to bill a patient, a patient s estate, the person chargeable for a patient s support or the county of residence for institutional, residential and outpatient support of patients treated for alcoholism or drug abuse or both. Receipts derived from billings or fees and unexpended balances, as of June 30, 2003, from these billings and fees are appropriated to the Department of Health and Senior Services, Division of Addiction Services for the support of the alcohol and drug abuse programs. The amounts appropriated for the two anti-smoking programs (School Based Programs and Youth Anti-Smoking, and Anti-Smoking Programs) shall be charged to the proceeds of the increase in the cigarette tax. In order to permit flexibility in the handling of the various appropriations for anti-tobacco initiative accounts hereinabove, funds may be transferred to and from the following items of appropriations: School Based Programs and Youth Anti-Smoking, and Anti-Smoking Programs. There are appropriated from the Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of P.L. 1983, c.531 (C.26:2B-32 et al.). There is transferred from the Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund $350,000 to establish an Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Disabled in the Department of Health and Senior Services. There is appropriated $700,000 from the Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund, to the Department of Health and Senior Services for a grant to Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. Grants-in-Aid Addiction Services 25,672,000 Substance Abuse Treatment for DYFS/Work First Mothers Pilot Project 1,400,000 Community Based Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention State Share 20,900,000 Mutual Agreement Parolee Rehabilitation Project of Substance Abusers 695,000 In-State Juvenile Residential Treatment Services 2,027,000 There is appropriated $570,000 from the alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund to fund the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Program. The unexpended balance of appropriations as of June 30, 2003, made to the Department of Health and Senior Services for state-licensed or approved drug abuse prevention and treatment programs is appropriated for the same purpose. There is appropriated an additional $3,000,000 from the Drug Enforcement and demand Reduction Fund for the Community Based Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention State Share Program. There is transferred $1,000,000 to the Department of Health and Senior Services from the Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund for drug abuse services. There is transferred $500,000 to the Department of Health and Senior Services from the Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund for Sub-Acute Residential Detoxification Program. There is appropriated $420,000 from the Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund to fund the Local Alcoholism Authorities Expansion account. The unexpended balance in the Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund as of June 30, 2003, is appropriated and shall be distributed to counties for the treatment of alcohol and drug abusers and for education purposes. State Aid Addiction Services $6,000,000

4 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES Grants-in-Aid Substance Abuse Initiatives $25,174,000 DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY Direct State Services Drunk Driver Fund Program 962,000 All fees and penalties collected by the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control in excess of $3,960,000 are appropriated for the purpose of offsetting additional operational costs of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Enforcement Bureau in the Division of State Police and the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The unexpended balance as of June 30, 2003, in the Drunk Driver Fund program account, together with any receipts in excess of the amount anticipated, is appropriated. The amount for the Drunk Driver Fund Program is payable out of the Drunk Driving Enforcement Fund. If receipts to the fund are less than anticipated, the appropriation will be reduced proportionately. Special Law Enforcement Activities Regulation of Alcoholic Beverages 1,489,000 All fees and penalties collected by the Director of Alcoholic Beverage Control in excess of $3,960,000 are appropriated for the purpose of offsetting additional operational costs of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Enforcement Bureau in the Division of State Police and the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Registration fees, tuition fees, training fees, and other fees received for reimbursement for attendance at courses administered or conducted by the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control are appropriated for program costs. Division of Juvenile Justice Female Substance Abuse Program 302,000 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Grants-in-AidOffice of Faith-Based Initiatives 2,000,000 DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY Financial Administration So much of the receipts derived from the sale of confiscated equipment, materials and supplies under the Cigarette Tax Act, P.L. 1948, c.65 (C.54:40A-1 et seq.), as may be necessary for confiscation, storage, disposal and other related expenses thereof, are appropriated. Management and Administration Deposits made to the Drug Abuse Education Fund and the unexpended balance as of June 30, 2003, of such deposits are appropriated for collection or administration costs of the Department of the Treasury and for transfer to the Department of Education for program costs and grants. There are appropriated from the Drug Enforcement and Demand Reduction Fund such sums as may be required to provide for the administrative expenses of the Governor s council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and for programs and grants to other agencies.

5 THE JUDICIARY Direct State Services Drug Court Treatment/Aftercare 12,418,000 Drug Court Operations 4,450,000 Drug Court Judgeships 1,498,000 The amounts appropriated in the Drug Courts Treatment and Aftercare account will be transferred to the Department of Health and Senior Services to fund treatment, aftercare and administrative services associated with the drug court program. FEDERAL FUNDS Department of Health and Senior Services Addiction Services 53,815,000 Substance Abuse Block Grant 496,000 Department of Human Services Faith Based Initiatives 1,000,000 Department of Law and Public Safety Law Enforcement: Domestic Marijuana Eradication Suppression Program 280,000 D.W.I. Training 5,000 Breathalyzer Training OHTS 60,000 Northern New Jersey Heroin and Money Laundering 200,000 Special Law Enforcement Activities: Regulation of Alcoholic Beverages 760,000 Highway Safety Alcohol Education and Public Awareness Coordinator 41,000 Drunk Driver Protection 5,000 Combating Underage Drinking 360,000 Combating Underage Drinking Discretionary 400,000 The Judiciary The appropriate executive agencies will prepare and submit to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Assembly Appropriations Committee, or their successors, by March 1, 2004, reports on proposed expenditures during fiscal year 2004 for the following federal program: the alcohol, drug abuse and mental health block grant. The Tobacco Settlement Fund, created and established in the Department of the Treasury as a separate non-lapsing fund is reestablished and continued. The unexpended balances in the Tobacco Settlement Fund as of June 30, 2003 are appropriated. The Tobacco Settlement Fund will be the repository for payments made by the tobacco manufacturers pursuant to the settlement agreement entered into by the tobacco manufacturers and the State of New Jersey on November 23, 1998, that resolved the state s pending claims against the tobacco industry and all other moneys, including interest earnings on balances in the fund, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Balances in the Tobacco Settlement Fund will be deposited in such depositories as the State Treasurer may select. Amounts transferred from the Tobacco Settlement Fund to the General Fund as anticipated revenue in excess of $1,612,022,000 will be excluded when calculating deposits to the Surplus Revenue Fund. Amounts appropriated or re-appropriated for state transportation projects and for state aid or grants to municipalities, school districts, and senior public colleges and universities, and for state capital construction projects, are appropriated in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,487,247,000 from funds paid to the state from any net proceeds, earnings thereon or residual interests from the sale of tobacco settlement revenues.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY. SENATE, No th LEGISLATURE. Sponsored by: Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE District 19 (Middlesex)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY. SENATE, No th LEGISLATURE. Sponsored by: Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE District 19 (Middlesex) SENATE, No. STATE OF NEW JERSEY th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED JANUARY, 0 Sponsored by: Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE District (Middlesex) SYNOPSIS Creates new taxable category of alcoholic beverages called flavored