Bill Text: NJ A1535 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Appropriates $2.5 million to NJ Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for purpose of expanding memorial and museum.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee [A1535 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1535-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman VICTORIA A. FLYNN
District 13 (Monmouth)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Webber, DePhillips, Assemblywoman Dunn, Assemblymen Scharfenberger and Danielsen
SYNOPSIS
Appropriates $2.5 million to NJ Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for purpose of expanding memorial and museum.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act appropriating funds to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation, supplementing P.L.1985, c.494 (C.52:18A-208 et al.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. There is appropriated from the General Fund $500,000 to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for the purpose of providing financial assistance for the expansion of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial and Vietnam Era Museum.
b. (1) There is appropriated $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Fund established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1985, c.494 (C.52:18A-208).
(2) Beginning in the State Fiscal Year next following the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the Legislature shall annually appropriate $500,000 from the funds deposited into the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Fund pursuant to subsection b. of this section to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for the purpose specified in subsection a. of this section.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill appropriates $500,000 to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation for the purpose of providing financial assistance for the expansion of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial and Vietnam Era Museum.
The bill also appropriates an additional $2 million to the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Fund for the same purposes; provided, however, the Legislature would be required to appropriate those funds, in $500,000 increments, to the foundation starting in the State Fiscal Year next following enactment.
The expansion would position the museum to become a major tourism destination, solidifying its foothold as the only museum in the country dedicated to the study and preservation of the Vietnam Era. With this expansion, the foundations aims to have the museum recognized as the National Vietnam Museum, the first national museum located in New Jersey.
