Bill Text: NJ A1252 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides supplemental appropriation of $250,000 for Deer-Resistant Native Species Propagation at Agricultural Experiment Station.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment, Natural Resources, and Solid Waste Committee [A1252 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1252-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ALEX SAUICKIE
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Provides supplemental appropriation of $250,000 for Deer-Resistant Native Species Propagation at Agricultural Experiment Station.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, P.L.2023, c.74.
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.2023, c.74, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:
74 STATE
30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development
36 Higher Educational Services
2415 Agricultural Experiment Station
GRANTS-IN-AID
82-2415 Institutional Support ............................................... $250,000
Total Grants-in-Aid appropriation,
Agricultural Experiment Station ........................ $250,000
Grants-in-Aid:
82 Deer-Resistant Native Species Propagation ($250,000)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill supplements the fiscal year 2024 appropriations act to provide a $250,000 appropriation for Deer-Resistant Native Species Propagation at the Agricultural Experiment Station.
This project will entail collecting cuttings and seeds of specific plants and woody shrubs, and developing propagation protocols for each plant. The project will involve plant specimens from various regions of the State with traits that may aid in reducing damage from deer to nurseries and other landscapes.
New Jersey is home to an estimated 125,000 deer, however unchecked deer populations can pose numerous problems, including increased deer-vehicle collisions and damage to gardens, agricultural crops, and the natural forest ecosystem. While New Jersey allows limited hunting of deer to manage the population, the project funded by this appropriation would explore nonlethal, environmentally-friendly means of mitigating deer-related damage to the State's ecosystem.
