Bill Text: NJ A3242 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires State arts, historical, and cultural grant recipients to offer information on food and lodging in vicinity of event funded.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-22 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee [A3242 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3242-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman SAMUEL L. FIOCCHI
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Requires State arts, historical, and cultural grant recipients to offer information on food and lodging in vicinity of event funded.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring that certain information be offered by arts, historical, and cultural organizations that receive State grants, and supplementing various parts of the statutory law.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Whenever an entity receives a grant in any amount from the New Jersey Historic Trust, established pursuant to P.L.1967, c.124 (C.13:1B-15.111 et seq.), to help defray the costs of producing a show, concert, demonstration, exhibition, presentation, performance, or other event, in whole or in part, the ticket or promotional materials provided to a person attending the event shall note the presence of restaurants and overnight accommodations in the vicinity of the event or include the address of the website of the governmental or private organization that contains such information.
2. Whenever an entity receives a grant in any amount from the New Jersey Historical Commission established pursuant to P.L.1999, c.131 (C.18A:73-22.3 et seq.), to help defray the costs of producing a show, concert, demonstration, exhibition, presentation, performance, or other event, in whole or in part, the ticket or promotional materials provided to a person attending the event shall note the presence of restaurants and overnight accommodations in the vicinity of the event or include the address of the website of the governmental or private organization that contains such information.
3. Whenever an entity receives a grant in any amount from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, established pursuant to P.L.1966, c.214 (C.52:16A-25 et seq.), to help defray the costs of producing a show, concert, demonstration, exhibition, presentation, performance, or other event, in whole or in part, the ticket or promotional materials provided to a person attending the event shall note the presence of restaurants and overnight accommodations in the vicinity of the event or include the address of the website of the governmental or private organization that contains such information.
4. Whenever an entity receives a grant in any amount from the New Jersey State Cultural Trust, established pursuant to P.L.2000, c.76 (C.52:16A-75 et seq.), to help defray the costs of producing a show, concert, demonstration, exhibition, presentation, performance, or other event, in whole or in part, the ticket or promotional materials provided to a person attending the event shall note the presence of restaurants and overnight accommodations in the vicinity of the event or include the address of the website of the governmental or private organization that contains such information.
5. This act shall take effect on the 90th day following the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that whenever a show, concert, demonstration, exhibition, presentation, performance, or other event sponsored by an entity that receives a grant in any amount from the State to help defray all or part of the costs of production, in whole or in part, the ticket or promotional materials provided to a person attending the event must note the presence of restaurants and overnight accommodations in the vicinity of the event or include the address of the website of the governmental or private organization that contain such information.
Under the bill, the New Jersey Historic Trust, the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the New Jersey Cultural Trust would be the State cultural entities whose grant recipients must provide information on food and lodging in the vicinity of the event funded.
Under current law, the money the State provides to cultural entities is generated by the State hotel and motel occupancy fee, pursuant to N.J.S.A.54:32D-1 et seq. It is hoped that if more people stay at hotels and motels near events funded by State grants, more funds will be available for additional State grants.
