Bill Text: NJ A5045 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes FY2021 supplemental appropriation of $200,000 from lapsed monies in Unclaimed Property Trust Fund to Jersey Fresh Program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-19 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture Committee [A5045 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A5045-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Assemblyman ADAM J. TALIAFERRO
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
SYNOPSIS
Makes FY2021 supplemental appropriation of $200,000 from lapsed monies in Unclaimed Property Trust Fund to Jersey Fresh Program.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
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, 2021 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved September 29, 2020 (P.L.2020, c. 97).
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.2020, c. 97, there is appropriated from the Unclaimed Property Trust 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 DIRECT STATE SERVICES |
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06-3360 |
Marketing and Development Services |
$200,000 |
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Total Direct State Services Appropriation Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation............ |
$200,000 |
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Direct State Services: |
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Special Purpose .......................................... |
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06 |
Promotion/Market Development |
($200,000) |
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2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would provide, for Fiscal Year 2021, a supplemental appropriation of $200,000 from the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund to the Department of Agriculture to increase funding for the Jersey Fresh program.
The Jersey Fresh program is an advertising, promotional, and quality grading program launched in 1984 to help farmers inform consumers about the availability and variety of fruits and vegetables grown in New Jersey, and later expanded to include seafood, landscape plants, and other agricultural products. This supplemental appropriation is in response to Resolution No. 9 approved at the 105th State Agricultural Convention, held in February 2020. The resolution expressed strong support for the Jersey Fresh program and urged the Legislature to increase the funding for the program in fiscal year 2021.
