Patricia's Law

Patricia's Law

Patricia's Law

Patricia's Law

Viola

One of our heroes needs our prayers. He's Jim Viola, husband of missing Patricia Viola. She's been missing since February of 2001 from Bogota, NJ.
Since her disappearance, Jim has rallied to the aid of other families of the missing, using his skills and talents with the computer and internet to make them audio/video presentations, offering them advice and support and much more.

With the exception of another family who testified at the senate hearing, Jim has single-handedly run the Campaign for the Missing in the state of NJ. If successful at passing this bill, thousands of present and future missing persons cases have a better chance of being resolved.

Jim (and the NJ lawmakers) need your prayers. This bill, named Patricia's Law after Jim's beloved wife, is currently in committee. The committee needs to place the bill on the senate agenda by 11/19 to then be voted on by 12/13.

If unsuccessful, Jim will need to begin anew with his effort in 2008. If successful, NJ will join CT, IN and OR as other states passed through Project Jason's Campaign for the Missing this year.

The people of NJ (and all states without it) need this bill passed. Jim has made such a tremendous effort in educating the NJ senate and the citizens of NJ about what's missing with procedures to help find our loved ones.

I ask that for those of you who pray, to join me in hope and prayer that Patricia's Law will be passed in 2007.

Let Jim know you are grateful for his efforts and support him by signing his guestbook.

Thanks, Jim, for being one of our heroes!

Kelly, Project Jason

** MEDIA ADVISORY** Pat Viola

** MEDIA ADVISORY**

SENATE LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER PATRICIA'S LAW MONDAY, February 26, 2007



TRENTON - The Senate Law & Public Safety and Veterans Affairs Committee will meet on Monday at 1
p.m. in Committee Room 4 of the State House Annex to consider a list of bills including Patricia's Law, a measure aimed at helping law enforcement personnel locate and safely return missing persons to their families. The bill
is named for Patricia Viola, a woman who disappeared from the kitchen of her Bogota home in 2001. Patricia's husband Jim Viola is scheduled to testify before the Committee during Mondays meeting.

Senator Weinberg's bill, S-2255, is designed to help law enforcement locate missing persons, to enhance the
current system of notifying families of missing persons, and to work to improve the process for identifying human remains.

The proposed legislation reflects model missing persons legislation proposed by the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, a federally funded resource center created to support research, legislation and program development for criminal justice.

Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle and Assemblyman Gordon M. Johnson, D-Englewood and Teaneck have sponsored identical legislation in the Assembly.

The legislators held a news conference with Patricia's husband Jim on October 19th at the Violas home.

Pat Viola

On Monday, 2/26/07, I will be going to Trenton, NJ, to testify on "Patricia's Law", S2255
for the Senate Committee, Law and Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs. S2255 has been
added to the agenda and I will be there on Monday to help expedite its passage through
the Senate Committee.

Just use the http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
and select Senate Committees, then Law and Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs Committee,
then select agenda. Try it.

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/S2500/2255_I1.HTM


The next step would be to push the Assembly version of "Patricia's Law", A3643, in the Assembly
Committee for Law and Public Safety. We need to get A3643 on the committee's agenda.

Jim

Explanation of proposed bill will be found on link or Angels That Care. This is a proposal for New Jersey resident's.

http://www.angelsthatcare.org/ModelLegislation-Final.pdf