Bill > A5751

Introduced Session

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.

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Daniel Benson (D)*, 

Substituted by S4139 (1R) (on 12/16/2019)

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