Bill Text: NJ A1275 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Appropriates $300,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [A1275 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A1275-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 1275

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER

District 28 (Essex)

Assemblyman  BOB ANDRZEJCZAK

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Assemblyman  R. BRUCE LAND

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Assemblyman  TIM EUSTACE

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $300,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.

 

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, 2017 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2016 (P.L.2016, c.10).

 

     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.2016, c.10, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE

30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development

36 Higher Educational Services

GRANTS-IN-AID

82-2415 New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station - Rutgers                                   University.........................................................................................

$300,000

Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,                                                                                                  

$300,000

      Higher Educational Services ...........................................

Grants-in-Aid:

 

 

82  New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station - Rutgers University........................................

($300,000)

 

 

Of the amount hereinabove appropriated for the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station - Rutgers University, $300,000 shall be allotted to continue and expand the Rutgers Veterans Environmental Technology and Solutions program.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides a supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University for the Veterans Environmental Technology and Solutions (VETS) program.

     The VETS program is an initiative that seeks to empower local unemployed veterans with environmental job skills.  Local veterans receive an educational stipend while undergoing certified training programs in a range of sustainable landscaping, environmental, and business skills.  New trainees learn through a combination of in-class lectures, site visits, and hands-on engagement within the community.  The VETS program also provides resources to help participating veterans readjust to civilian life, become self-sufficient, and re-engage in their community through environmental improvement initiatives.

     The Essex County VETS program was established in 2014, as a collaborative effort between the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension, the Metropolitan Resurrection Community Development Corporation, and the Lower Passaic River Study Area Cooperating Parties Group.

     The funds appropriated under this bill would be allotted to the VETS program for the continuation and expansion of the program now that program funding has ended.

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