Bill Text: NJ S2668 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-11 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S2668 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S2668-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2668

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 11, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.

 

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, 2018 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved July 4, 2017 (P.L.2017, c.99).

 

     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.2017, c.99, there is appropriated out of the Property Tax Relief Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 37 Cultural and Intellectual Development Services 2541 Division of State Library   STATE AID
51-2541 Per Capita Library Aid (PTRF)...........................................		$10,500,000
Total State Aid Appropriation,		$10,500,000
Division of State Library...............................................
State Aid:
51      Per Capita Library Aid.......................	($10,500,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $10.5 million from the Property Tax Relief Fund to increase the State fiscal year 2018 funding for Per Capita Library Aid.  The purpose of the bill is to better enable the State's libraries to serve the public with access to information and cultural enrichment.

     Per Capita Library Aid has waned over the past decade.

 

Per Capita Library Aid Over the Past Ten Fiscal Years

FY17                                       $3.676 million

FY16                                       $3.676 million

            FY15                                       $3.676 million

FY14                                       $3.676 million

FY13                                       $3.676 million

FY12                                       $3.676 million

FY11                                       $3.676 million

FY10                                       $7.176 million

FY09                                       $7.973 million

FY08                                       $8.665 million

     As funding for Per Capita Library Aid has dwindled, the State's population has increased by approximately 300,000 residents.  It is time to replenish Per Capita Library Aid to better afford the public access to the informative and cultural opportunities it had in years past.