So-Called ‘DiNardo Bill’ Will See Vote on Monday
By Jon Whiten • Dec 4th, 2009 • Category: Blog, News, Politics
The full state Assembly will consider legislation next week designed to expedite the payment of accidental pension death benefits for the families of fallen police and firefighters.
The bill (A-4300), which is sponsored by Jersey City Assemblywoman Joan Quigley, was drafted in response to the nearly three-month wait that the widow of former JCPD detective Marc DiNardo endured after DiNardo was killed in a July shootout.
“To have seen this family get caught in a bureaucratic mess was outrageous,” Quigley says in a statement. “This can’t go on and it has to be fixed. It was unacceptable and must not happen again.”
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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