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A1152 • 2026

Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to DCF for Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0 million.

Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to DCF for Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0 million.

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Danielsen, Joe
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Children, Families and Food Security Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to DCF for Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0 million.

Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to DCF for Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0 million.

What This Bill Does

  • Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to DCF for Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0 million.
  • Topic: Children, Families and Food Security Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Children, Families and Food Security Committee

Official Summary Text

Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to DCF for Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0 million.
Topic:
Children, Families and Food Security
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1152

ASSEMBLY, No. 1152

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman JOE DANIELSEN

District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)

SYNOPSIS

���� Increases FY2024 appropriation from General Fund to
DCF for Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million from $500,000 to $2.0
million.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

A
Supplement
to the annual appropriations act
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, P.L.2023, c.74.

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

���� 1.���
The
following item in section 1 of
P.L.2023, c.74, the annual appropriations
act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024,
is
amended to read as follows:

16 DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND
FAMILIES

50 Economic Planning, Development,
and Security

55 Social Services Programs

1630 Division of Family and Community
Partnerships

GRANTS-IN-AID

03-1630� Family and Community
Partnerships
[
$162,418,000
]
$163,918,000

���������������� Total
Grants-in-Aid appropriation,���������������������������������������

������������������ Social
Services Programs ..
[
$162,418,000
]
$163,918,000

Grants-in-Aid:

�������� 03��� Center for
Great Expectations
[
($500,000)
]
($2,000,000)

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill increases the FY2024
appropriation from the General Fund to the Department of Children and Families
for the Center for Great Expectations by $1.5 million, from $500,000 to $2.0
million.� The Center for Great Expectations is located in Somerset and
provides safe housing and supportive
services to over 1,000 women, men, and children annually, from both within and
outside Somerset. Many of these individuals are homeless or economically
marginalized, pregnant or parenting, or living with mental health or substance
use disorders.� Importantly, the organization administers the State�s only
residential program for adolescents with mental health disorders, who are
pregnant or parenting.

����
The additional State funds will be used to
s
upport the Center�s adolescent residential
program, the adult residential program for pregnant and at-risk women, and the
outpatient substance abuse and mental health programs.� All of these programs
face a funding shortfall in the current fiscal year, which will be completely
mitigated with the help of this additional State funding.