Ashury Park Press Sunday, Dec. 10, 1995 A7 NEW JERSEY GOP lawmakers plan to hike tobacco levy 25 cents Cigarette-tax survey was rigged, says aide for hospital group tion of the Legislature to occur in the state's capital but the traditional venue, Trenton's War Memorial auditorium, is being renovated. On the Senate side, one bill would require employed parents who are separated from their children to provide health coverage to those children as dependents. Sponsors hope this will get many poor children off taxpayer-funded Medicaid. Other bills scheduled for Senate action require disclosure of the source of all campaign advertising, eliminate the office of county registrar of deeds, and permit rural municipalities with dwindling population to merge with their neighbors.
The Senate budget committee will review legislation tomorrow to permit the formation of so-called charter schools in New Jersey. These schools could be proposed by nonprofit, business and parents groups to develop new educational programs free of traditional school constraints such as teacher unions, seniority and tenure. uninsured people who are not covered by Medicaid. State law requires all hospitals to treat any person, and the charity care fund is used to compensate hospitals for costs that cannot be recovered otherwise. Since 1993, the state has diverted $1.5 billion in payroll and worker taxes from the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund to use mainly for charity care.
However, labor and industry officials have been angry about the diversion of unemployment taxes, claiming they had been promised the shift would be temporary. The Republican proposal expected to be released Monday will not appease those officials immediately, but it does reduce the amount that is taken from unemployment taxes. The proposal would also require that use of those funds be scaled down year by year and end by 2000, according to The Star-Ledger. The Senate and Assembly will both be in session tomorrow for ac tion on bills as the 206th Legislative session enters its final weeks. The Assembly will act on legislation pushed by Gov.
Whitman to create a juvenile justice commission as a sort of super-agency to coordinate juvenile-offender programs in three state departments and the 21 counties. The commission bill is a cornerstone of a package of bills to change the juvenile justice system, which Whitman has identified as her top law enforcement priority. The Assembly will also act on a bill to extend the state's farm tax break to ensure the break applies to those who train or board horses. A technical piece of housekeeping is on the agenda to allow the swearing-in ceremonies for the 207th Legislature Jan. 9 to take place at Trenton State College in Ewing, which has a sufficiently large auditorium.
State law requires the inaugura Higher tobacco levy Is part of a plan to fund hospital charity care. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON A deal is expected to be announced tomorrow to resolve the major unfinished policy issue of the year, a $350 million fund to pay hospitals for "charity care," according to published reports. A bill will be introduced by Republicans Monday to increase the state cigarette tax from 40 cents to 65 cents per pack, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark. The bill will continue the diversion of funds from state unemployment taxes paid by workers and businesses, but will phase out the use of that tax over four years. The fund will be used to reimburse hospitals for providing free charity care to the working poor, immigrants, the homeless and other THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAWRENCEVILLE A New Jersey Hospital Association official believes the tobacco industry was behind an attempt to rig a survey gauging support for raising the state cigarette tax to finance charity hospital care.
"It was an effort to kill something that was unpopular to them," said Peter Lillo, the hospital lobby's vice president for government relations. "There's a right way and a wrong way to go about lobbying and this is the wrong way," he said Friday. The survey, sponsored by the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, asked 1,500 business leaders to express their opinions on funding options for providing health care to uninsured, poor workers. A bill that will be introduced in the the trend set in the first few hours of a telephone survey would continue with little variation to the end. In the first 24 hours of the survey Monday and Tuesday, the chamber received 160 phone calls.
In the next 24 hours, 440 calls, most in opposition to the tax, flooded the chamber. "The fact that there was a huge spike of calls in the last 12 to 24 hours of the poll, coupled with the dramatic change, pointed to one conclusion: Someone deliberately flooded the survey with calls to influence the results," Muha said. Muha said the chamber had created a security code to ensure only its 1,500 members could vote, and only once each, in the new survey. The Medical Society of New Jersey, which represents 9,500 physicians, expressed support Friday for the cigarette tax hike as a way to discourage underage smoking. Legislature tomorrow would increase the state cigarette tax from 40 cents to 65 cents a pack to help pay for that care, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark.
In the first 24 hours of the survey 77 percent said, 'Yes, we favor a tax V-v-. on said chamber spokes man Dave Muha. "By the time the survey closed, it was 71 percent unfa vorable. The skewed results led the cham ber to throw out the survey and schedule a new poll for next week. 25 OFF Tobacco lobbyists deny that they orchestrated a campaign to tamper -Jtz with the poll.
Dale Florio, a lobbyist who repre sents Philip Moms Companies Inc said 20 calls to the survey came from his office, but they were not part of a plot. "There was no involvement by my ALL JOCECEY FOR HER UNDERWEAR client, he said. "On the flip side, isn't that the idea of a survey, for people to call in and I express their opinion? he said "There is nothing to prevent a hospi tal or business calling in more than once or having its people call in to ex press their opinion. Muha said under normal conditions DYFS aide accused of cocaine buy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Reg. 5.25-$16...
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