Bill Text: NJ A3003 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote State aquaculture products through Jersey Fresh Program; establishes annual $100,000 appropriation; appropriates $100,000.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-01-19 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A3003 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3003-Amended.html
ASSEMBLY, No. 3003
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
220th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman CLINTON CALABRESE
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman ROY FREIMAN
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
Assemblyman WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Thomson and Sauickie
SYNOPSIS
Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote State aquaculture products through Jersey Fresh Program; establishes annual $100,000 appropriation; appropriates $100,000.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Agriculture and Food Security Committee on January 19, 2023, with amendments.
An Act concerning the promotion of aquaculture products through the Jersey Fresh Program, supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes, and making an appropriation.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. 1[In addition to any monies otherwise appropriated or allocated to the Jersey Fresh Program, there shall be annually appropriated $100,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture for the sole purpose of the promotion of aquaculture products produced in the State as part of the Jersey Fresh Program.
b.]1 The department 1[shall develop and implement]1, as part of the Jersey Fresh Program, 1[a program to] shall1 advertise and promote aquaculture products 1[produced in the State, and shall allocate the], the quality of which complies with standards adopted by the department and is verified thereby through the use of an appropriate quality grading system. The department shall develop and implement an appropriate quality grading system specific to the grading of aquaculture products, as distinguished from wild-caught seafood products, which system shall be consistent with, and similar to, the quality grading system that is used, by the department, to grade the quality of other agricultural commodities for the purposes of the Jersey Fresh Program.
b. In addition to the1 monies appropriated pursuant to 1section 2 of this act and otherwise appropriated or allocated to the Jersey Fresh Program, in each fiscal year following the effective date of this act, there shall be annually appropriated, from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture, $100,000 for the sole purpose of facilitating the department's advertisement and promotion of aquaculture products, under the Jersey Fresh Program, as provided by1 subsection a. of this section 1[to the program's advertising and promotion of aquaculture products]1.
c. As used in this section:
1"Aquaculture product" means fish or shellfish that is produced in the State, or in State waters, through means of aquaculture, as defined by section 3 of the "New Jersey Aquaculture Development Act," P.L.1997, c.226 (C.4:27-3).1
"Department" means the Department of Agriculture.
"Jersey Fresh Program" means
the 1[same as that
term is defined in section 1 of P.L.2017, c.197 (C.54A:9-25.44)] agricultural
commodity marketing and quality grading program established by the department
pursuant to R.S.4:10-6, P.L.1971, c.308 (C.4:10-43
et seq.), and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto1.
2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture the sum of $100,000 for the purpose of the promotion of aquaculture products produced in the State as part of the Jersey Fresh Program.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
