Bill Text: NJ S2084 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DCA for disbursement to Jersey City to examine mass transit and green space needs at Bergen Arches.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-11-15 - Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading [S2084 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-S2084-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator BRIAN P. STACK
District 33 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Makes supplemental appropriation of $100,000 to DCA for disbursement to Jersey City to examine mass transit and green space needs at Bergen Arches.
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, 2020 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2019 (P.L.2019, c.150).
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.2019, c.150, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:
22 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS 50 Economic Planning, Development, and Security 05 Social Services Programs GRANTS-IN-AID |
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05-8050 Community Resources ........................................................ |
$100,000 |
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Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, |
$100,000 |
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Social Services Programs................................................. |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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05 City of Jersey City - Bergen Arches Feasibility Study ........................................ |
($100,000) |
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The amount hereinabove appropriated for the City of Jersey City - Bergen Arches Feasibility Study shall be utilized to conduct a study to examine the need for mass transit and green space at the Bergen Arches.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill appropriates $100,000 from the General Fund to Division of Housing and Community Resources in the Department of Community Affairs for disbursement to the City of Jersey City. The bill requires this funding to be utilized to conduct a study to examine the need for mass transit and green space at the Bergen Arches, which is an abandoned railroad corridor cutting through the Palisades in Jersey City.