Bill Text: NJ S927 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases amount county may annually appropriate to center for performing and visual arts from $10,000 to $50,000.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-10-18 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S927 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S927-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH P. CRYAN
District 20 (Union)
SYNOPSIS
Increases amount county may annually appropriate to center for performing and visual arts from $10,000 to $50,000.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning county appropriations for the benefit of the arts and amending P.L.1978, c.104.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1978, c.104 (C.40:23-8.25) is amended to read as follows:
1. The governing body of any county may appropriate funds to any privately operated, nonprofit organization approved by the governing body whose services are nonsectarian, in an amount not to exceed [$10,000.00] $50,000 in any year, for the purpose of the planning, construction, acquisition or operation of a center for the performing and visual arts, the location and successful operation of which within such county said governing body deems to be necessary, or conducive, to the improvement and furtherance of the tourist industries and recreational attractiveness of such county, or to the fulfillment of the recreational, entertainment, cultural, and educational needs of the residents of such county.
(cf: P.L.1978, c.104, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill increases the maximum amount a county may annually appropriate to a center for the performing and visual arts. Current law permits the governing body of any county to appropriate up to $10,000 in any year to a privately operated, nonprofit organization, whose services are nonsectarian, for the purpose of planning, construction, acquisition or operation of a center for the performing and visual arts. This bill raises the annual county appropriation limit to $50,000.