Bill Text: NJ A2094 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10.5 million to DCA for State Rental Assistance Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A2094 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A2094-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2094

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JERRY GREEN

District 22 (Middlesex, Somerset and Union)

Assemblyman  VINCENT PRIETO

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

Assemblyman  RAJ MUKHERJI

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

Assemblywoman  MILA M. JASEY

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Coughlin, Gusciora and Assemblywoman Mosquera

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $10.5 million to DCA for State Rental Assistance Program.

 

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, 2016 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 26, 2015 (P.L.2015, c.63).

 

     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.2015, c.63, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

22 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS 40 Community Development and Environmental Management 41 Community Development Management FUNDING CATEGORY
02-8020 Housing Services  ......................................................		$10,500,000
Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,		$10,500,000
Community Development Management ........
Funding Category:
02     State Rental Assistance Program  ..............	($10,500,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a FY 2016 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation from the State General Fund of $10,500,000 to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for the State Rental Assistance Program (SRAP).  Established by P.L.2004, c.140, SRAP is patterned after the federal Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program for low-income individuals and households.  The FY 2016 appropriations act provided $18,500,000 for SRAP.

     The SRAP offers tenant-based rental assistance grants and project-based rental assistance.  Tenant-based rental assistance grants are awarded through a lottery-type process open only to applicants on the department's existing Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program waiting list.  Project-based rental assistance allocates payments to new or rehabilitated housing units for 15 years, and paid when qualified tenants occupy those units.  Program regulations also reserve 35% of the rental assistance for persons currently on the SRAP waiting list.

     The amount of this supplemental appropriation, $10,500,000, represents funding for 1,000 additional vouchers to be issued through SRAP in FY 2016.