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NJ S1901

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/9/2024

Primary Sponsor

Carmen Amato

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Origin

Senate

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • County boards of commissioners may authorize their mosquito extermination commissions to conduct greenhead fly reduction programs in areas where the flies have become a nuisance or pest problem

  • Programs must use greenhead fly box traps developed by Rutgers, the State University, including their manufacture, placement, and maintenance

  • Appropriates $50,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Protection for grants to affected counties to fund these extermination programs

  • Targets greenhead flies whose larvae develop in coastal marshes and become abundant from June to September, with peak numbers in July

Legislative Description

Authorizes counties to reduce greenhead fly populations; appropriates $50,000.

2nd Reading in the Senate

Last Action

Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading

11/10/2025

Full Bill Text

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