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Capitol Talks: Volume IV, Issue No. 4
NCADD-NJ PROPOSES MEASURE TO EXPAND TREATMENT
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence –New Jersey proposed a measure that would add $10 million to the Alcohol Education Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund (AEREF), which is a dedicated fund established to disburse treatment dollars to counties.

Capitol Talks: Volume IV, Issue No. 3
BENEFITS PANEL RECOMMENDS ENACTMENT OF PARITY BILL. Following a thorough review of the social, financial and medical efficacy impacts and implications for patients, providers and health benefits plans, the State Mandated Health Benefits Commission recommended enactment of parity legislation (A-333).

Capitol Talks: Volume IV, Issue No. 2
COMMISSION TO REVIEW ADDICTION COVERAGE
Legislation was referred to the Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission for review in November 2004. The 17-member Commission reviews bills introduced in the Legislature that require health insurance carriers to provide or offer a health benefit or coverage for certain benefits.

Capitol Talks: Volume IV, Issue No. 1
TWO BILLS ADDRESS NEEDLE EXCHANGE
In an effort to reduce the spread of HIV, hepatitus, and other bloodborne pathogens, the Legislature is considering two controversial bills that would enable drug users and others who are at least 18 years old to legally obtain and possess sterile syringes.

Capitol Talks: Volume III, Issue No. 4
TWO BILLS FOCUS ON REFORM OF NON-VIOLENT SENTENCING
New Jersey’s sentencing laws are to be reviewed by a commission established with the passage of legislation, A-2750, at the close of the last Legislative session and signed by the governor in January.

Capitol Talks: Volume III, Issue No. 3
MCGREEVEY UNVEILS PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2005 STATE BUDGET
On February 24, 2004, Governor James McGreevey delivered his State of the Budget address. The Governor’s proposed fiscal 2005 budget of $26.3 billion represents an increase of $1.7 billion above the adjusted appropriation of $24.5 billion.

Capitol Talks: Volume III, Issue No. 2
STATE APPELLATE COURT UPHOLDS ENACTMENT OF ACTIVE CONSENT LAW
On December 9, 2003, the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, rejected an application made by Ridgewood School Board member and attorney Charles Reilly and others who challenged the manner in which the state’s active consent provision became law.

Capitol Talks: Volume III, Issue No. 1
STATE APPELLATE COURT HEARS CASE CHALLENGING ENACTMENT OF ACTIVE CONSENT LAW
The New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, on September 30, 2003, heard a case brought by Ridgewood School Board member and attorney Charles Reilly claiming the bill that became the active consent law in 2002 was materially identical to the legislation that Governor Christie Whitman had conditionally vetoed in the 209th Legislature.

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