Establishes Emergency Services Assistance Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
This bill creates a $10 million grant program within New Jersey's Department of Health to help volunteer emergency services groups recover from pandemic-related financial losses. It directly affects volunteer fire companies, first aid squads, rescue teams, and ambulance services that lost income due to canceled fundraising events under pandemic restrictions. Grants will be awarded based on documented past fundraising activity, with applications managed through the Department's website and funded entirely by existing federal pandemic relief monies. The program expires once all $10 million is distributed.
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Introduced Jan 13, 2026
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Jan 13, 2026
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Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee
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Latham Tiver
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