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Bill Text

A1912 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1912 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER

District 28 (Essex and Union)

Assemblyman WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblyman� MICHAEL VENEZIA

District 34 (Essex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen McCoy, Reynolds-Jackson, Flynn, Assemblymen 
Rumpf and Scharfenberger

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes and allocates funds for program to 
provide mental health services to veterans; appropriates $2 million.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act establishing a mental health grant program for 
veterans, supplementing chapter 3 of Title 38A of the New Jersey Statutes, and 
making an appropriation.��� 

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

���� 1.� a.� The Adjutant General 
of the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs shall establish a program 
to provide grants to recognized veterans organizations to provide mental health 
services to veterans.� The veterans organization shall contract with mental 
health care professionals to provide mental health services to veterans.� 

���� b.� As used in this act: 

���� "Mental health care 
professional" means a person who provides mental health services and is 
licensed or otherwise authorized, pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes, 
to practice a health care profession that is regulated by one of the following: 
the State Board of Medical Examiners; the State Board of Psychological 
Examiners; the State Board of Social Work Examiners; the State Board of 
Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners; the Alcohol and Drug Counselor 
Committee; the Professional Counselor Examiners Committee; and the Certified 
Psychoanalysts Advisory Committee.

���� "Veterans organization" 
means a veteran organization that qualifies as a section 501(c)(3) or 
501(c)(19) tax-exempt organization under the Internal Revenue Code, or a 
federally chartered Veterans� Service Organization.� It shall also include the New 
Jersey SOS Veterans Stakeholders Group and the New Jersey Catholic Charities 
Diocese.� 

���� c.� The Adjutant General of 
the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs shall adopt regulations, 
pursuant to the �Administrative Procedure Act,� P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et 
seq.), to effectuate the purposes of this act.

���� 2.� There is appropriated $2,000,000 
from the General Fund to the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs for 
the purpose of providing grants to veterans� organizations to be used to 
provide mental health services to veterans in accordance with section 1 of 
P.L.�� , c.�� (C.�� )(pending before the Legislature as this bill).� 

���� 3.� This act shall take effect 
immediately.

STATEMENT

����� This bill directs the Adjutant General of the 
Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs to establish a program to provide 
grants to certain veterans organizations to provide mental health services to 
veterans.� The veterans organizations will contract with mental health care 
professionals to provide the services.� The bill appropriates $2,000,000 from 
the General Fund for the program.

���� The bill defines 
"veterans organization" to mean a veterans organization that 
qualifies as a section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) tax-exempt organization under 
the Internal Revenue Code, or a federally chartered Veterans� Service 
Organization.� It also includes the New Jersey SOS Veterans Stakeholders Group 
and the New Jersey Catholic Charities Diocese.