LEGISLATIVE FISCAL ESTIMATE
[First Reprint]
ASSEMBLY, No. 4409
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
DATED: JULY 1, 2024
SUMMARY
Synopsis: Establishes “Mass Violence Care Fund.”
Type of Impact: State expenditure increase.
Agencies Affected: Department of Law and Public Safety; Department of the Treasury;
Department of Health.
Office of Legislative Services Estimate
Fiscal Impact
State Expenditure Increase Indeterminate
 The Office of Legislative Services (OLS) estimates the provisions of this bill would require an
indeterminate increase in State expenditures to provide a sustainable source of funds, through
the Mass Violence Care Fund, to provide coverage for physical and behavioral health care
expenses related to a mass violence event that are not paid for by insurance or any other source.
 The bill requires the Office of the Attorney General to establish a working group to issue a
report containing its recommendations for eligibility requirements and rules and any
recommendations for legislation to the Victims of Crime Compensation Office within nine
months after the bill’s effective date. Depending on the office’s resource allocation policies,
the added initial workload may or may not augment the administrative expenditures of the
office.
BILL DESCRIPTION
This bill establishes the “Mass Violence Care Fund” in the Department of Law and Public
Safety. The fund is to be administered by the Victims of Crime Compensation Office and be used
solely to provide a sustainable source of funds to provide coverage for physical and behavioral
health care expenses related to a mass violence event that are not paid for by insurance or any other
source.
Office of Legislative Services Legislative Budget and Finance Office
State House Annex Phone (609) 847-3105
P.O. Box 068 Fax (609) 777-2442
Trenton, New Jersey 08625 www.njleg.state.nj.us
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The moneys in the fund are to be invested and reinvested by the Director of the Division of
Investment in the Department of the Treasury. All costs of administering the fund, including the
necessary and proper expenses incurred by the office in administering the fund, are to be paid from
the fund.
Under the bill, the office is to make distributions from the fund in accordance with the
following criteria and any rules or regulations adopted by the office establishing eligibility criteria:
1) only gains, interest, dividends, and other revenue earned on the moneys in the fund and any
amounts gifted to the fund may be expended; 2) payments from the fund may be made only for an
eligible victim’s eligible expense; 3) payments from the fund to a victim for an eligible expense
may not be made sooner than three years after the applicable mass violence event; and 4) payments
may not be made to satisfy a financial commitment for services or expenses that would otherwise
have been paid from another public or private source, including but not limited to Medicaid or
private insurance.
Under the bill, the office is to adopt rules and regulations establishing eligibility criteria for
victims, mass violence events, and healthcare and other expenses and the office is not to make any
distributions from the fund prior to the adoption of the rules and regulations.
Further, the bill requires the Attorney General to establish a Mass Violence Care Fund Working
Group. The purpose of the working group is to identify specific options and eligibility criteria to
help ensure that individuals adversely affected by a mass violence event are provided some
financial relief from physical and behavioral health care costs not paid for by insurance or some
other source.
Under the bill, the working group is to issue a report containing its recommendations for
eligibility requirements and rules and any recommendations for legislation to the Victims of Crime
Compensation Office no later than nine months after the bill’s effective date.
FISCAL ANALYSIS
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
None received.
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES
The OLS estimates that the provisions of this bill would require an indeterminate increase in
State expenditures to provide a sustainable source of funds, through the Mass Violence Care Fund,
to provide coverage for physical and behavioral health care expenses related to a mass violence
event that are not paid for by insurance or any other source.
The bill requires the Office of the Attorney General to establish a working group to issue a
report containing its recommendations for eligibility requirements and rules and any
recommendations for legislation to the Victims of Crime Compensation Office within nine months
after the bill’s effective date. Depending on the office’s resource allocation policies, the added
initial workload may or may not augment the administrative expenditures of the office.
Section: Law and Public Safety
Analyst: Kristin Brunner Santos
Lead Fiscal Analyst
Approved: Thomas Koenig
Legislative Budget and Finance Officer
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This legislative fiscal estimate has been produced by the Office of Legislative Services due to the
failure of the Executive Branch to respond to our request for a fiscal note.
This fiscal estimate has been prepared pursuant to P.L.1980, c.67 (C.52:13B-6 et seq.).