Bill Text: NJ A3099 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes supplemental appropriation of $3,100,000 to DOE to provide additional State school aid to Manchester Regional School District.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A3099 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A3099-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3099

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 8, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes supplemental appropriation of $3,100,000 to DOE to provide additional State school aid to Manchester Regional School District.

 

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:

 

34 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development 31 Direct Educational Services and Assistance STATE AID
03-5120 Miscellaneous Grants-In-Aid  .............................................		$3,100,000
Total State Aid Appropriation,   Direct		$3,100,000
Educational Services and Assistance...............................
State Aid:
03    Manchester Regional       Tax Levy Stabilization Aid (PTRF)	($3,100,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides a supplemental appropriation of $3.1 million to the Department of Education to provide additional State school aid to the Manchester Regional School District.  As a result of recent decisions regarding the tax levy apportionment among the municipalities included in the Manchester Regional School District, residents of Prospect Park and Haledon have experienced significant and unsustainable property tax increases. This additional State aid would offset a portion of that increase and provide much-needed relief to residents of that community.  The aid should only be used to bring tax relief to the communities of the Manchester Regional School District.