l9n/ New Jersey

2004–2005 Session

Senate Bill 544

Revises statutory mental health coverage requirements and requires all health insurers and SHBP to cover treatment for alcoholism and other substance-use disorders under same terms and conditions as for other diseases or illnesses.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Budget and Appropriations Committee on June 10, 2005. The 2004–2005 session has ended.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

3 co-sponsors

Robert W. Singer, Ellen Karcher, Bernard F. Kenny Jr.

Its course

January 13, 2004 to June 10, 2005, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action4 actions on 3 days

In the SenateJan 13 to Jun 10 · stopped514 days

Budget and AppropriationsMay 5 to Jun 10 · stopped36 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted May 5, 2005

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the Senate Jan 13 – May 5, 2005

  1. Introduced in the Senate and sent to Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens
  2. Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens recommended it as amended
  3. Read a second time
  4. Sent to Budget and Appropriations
All 4 actions, as published