Bill Text: NJ A2378 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends transmittal date deadline for fiscal year 2018-2019 gubernatorial budget message to Legislature from fourth Tuesday in February to March 13, 2018.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-15 - Substituted by S1248 [A2378 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A2378-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2378

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 1, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ELIANA PINTOR MARIN

District 29 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Extends transmittal date deadline for fiscal year 2018-2019 gubernatorial budget message to Legislature from fourth Tuesday in February to March 13, 2018.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the budget message to be transmitted by the Governor to the Legislature for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the Governor shall transmit the budget message for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019 to the Legislature on or before March 13, 2018.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill extends the date by which the Governor's Fiscal Year 2019 budget message is to be transmitted to the Legislature, from the fourth Tuesday in February to March 13, 2018.  Current law provides that the budget message is to be transmitted on or before the fourth Tuesday in February.  Similar extensions have been provided in the past for the first budgets of other Governors.