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Rep. Farry To Host Hearing on Recovery Home Bill

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Jeff Bohen
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State Representative Frank Farry will host the House  Health and Human services committee  Tuesday, October 9  for a public hearing  to examine House Bill 1298, which seeks to establish statewide standards to govern the health and safety environment of recovery based housing.

Farry, who authored the bill,  spoke to LevittownNow earlier this summer about the measure, said he was hoping that such a hearing would happen. It would appear he got his wish.

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The hearing is set to take place Tuesday at 9 a.m. at the Middletown Township Municipal Building, 3 Municipal Way, Langhorne.

Scheduled to testify at the public meeting are Secretary Gary Tennis, Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs; Ted Millard, executive director, Good Friends Inc.; Fred Way, executive director, Philadelphia Association of Recovery Residences; Kevin Dippolito, fire marshal and emergency management director, Bristol Township; and Joe Pizzo, solicitor, Middletown Township.

Resident throughout Lower Bucks have expressed concern with the proliferation of recovery homes over the last year, expressing a need to put some controls in place.

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Jeff Bohen

Jeff Bohen

Jeff Bohen is a former member of LevittownNow.com’s staff. Jeff was born and raised on the streets of Brooklyn, New York. He is an avid New York sports fan who studied and worked in the Mental Health system of four different states. Jeff came to journalism late in life initially desiring to be a sports broadcaster. Mentors at Temple University Dept of Journalism pointed Jeff towards broadcasting and covering news which he’s been doing since 2009. Jeff loves heavy metal, signs and is the best air guitarist he knows. Jeff spends his free time stalking out stories throughout the nooks and crannies of Lower Bucks.