Bill Text: NJ A1046 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Appropriates $5 million for Sire Stakes, horse breeding and development.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [A1046 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1046-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOSEPH R. MALONE, III
District 30 (Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Dancer
SYNOPSIS
Appropriates $5 million for Sire Stakes, horse breeding and development.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 28, 2007 (P.L.2007, c.111).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2007, c.111, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:
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10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 40 Community Development and Environmental Management 49 Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation GRANTS-IN-AID |
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06-3360 Marketing and Development Services .............................. |
$5,000,000 |
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Total Grants-In-Aid Appropriation, |
$5,000,000 |
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Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation........... |
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Grants-In-Aid: |
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06 Sire Stakes Fund, Horse Breeding and Development ............................... |
($5,000,000) |
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The amount hereinabove for the Sire Stakes Fund, Horse Breeding and Development account shall be allocated to the Division of Marketing and Development for New Jersey Sire Stakes purse money, to be administered by the Department of Agriculture.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill appropriates $5,000,000 to the Department of Agriculture's Division of Marketing and Development to supplement the Sire Stakes Fund account. Moneys in this account, according to statute, are to be used to improve and promote standardbred breeding and racing by enhancing purses for New Jersey Sire Stakes races.
This funding is desperately needed to stop the exodus of racehorses and other equines and the abandonment of horse breeding farms from the State of New Jersey. In the past 15 years, for example, there has been a huge decrease of 57.7 percent in the number of standardbred mares bred in this state, from 3,147 in 1992 to 1,332 in 2007. Standardbred stallions also have left New Jersey to breed in those states which provide more purse money to their state-bred racehorses than New Jersey does. Twenty years ago, there were more than 100 such standardbred stallions, while there were only 14 in 2007.
