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S3565 • 2026

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

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

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Greenstein, Linda R.
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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

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

What This Bill Does

  • Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide mental health services to veterans; appropriates $2 million.
  • Topic: Military and Veterans' Affairs Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Establishes and allocates funds for program to provide mental health services to veterans; appropriates $2 million.
Topic:
Military and Veterans' Affairs
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3565

SENATE, No. 3565

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

SYNOPSIS

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

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

establishing a mental health grant program for
veterans, supplementing chapter 22 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 Commissioner of
the Department of 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 Commissioner of the
Department of 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 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 Commissioner of the
Department of 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.