Bill Text: NJ A795 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [A795 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A795-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 795

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  BOB ANDRZEJCZAK

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

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, 2016 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 26, 2015 (P.L.2015, c.63).

 

     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.2015, c.63, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 40 Community Development and Environmental Management 49 Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation DIRECT STATE SERVICES
06-3360 Marketing and Development Services..................................		$1,600,000
Total Direct State Services Appropriation,		$1,600,000
Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation...........
Direct State Services:
Special Purpose: 06          Promotion/Market Development...............	($1,600,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $1.6 million from the General 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.