Bill Text: NJ A3483 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Adjusts the FY2014 budget by making supplemental appropriations totaling $33,348,000 and modifying language provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-26 - Substituted by S2014 [A3483 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3483-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 3483

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED JUNE 23, 2014

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  GARY S. SCHAER

District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Adjusts the FY2014 budget by making supplemental appropriations totaling $33,348,000 and modifying language provisions.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 


An Act amending and supplementing the Fiscal Year 2014 annual appropriations act, P.L.2013, c.77.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  In addition to the amounts appropriated and the language provisions in section 1 of P.L.2013, c.77, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2014, the following sums are appropriated from the General Fund and the following language is amended to read as follows:

 

26 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

 

10  Public Safety and Criminal Justice

16  Detention and Rehabilitation

 

DIRECT STATE SERVICES

 

08-7040

 

Institutional Care and Treatment ...........

 

$3,343,000

 

07-7040

 

Institutional Control and Supervisions ....

 

$57,000

 

 

 

 

   Total Direct State Services Appropriation,

      Detention and Rehabilitation .

 

 

$3,400,000

 

 

Direct State Services:

 

 

 

08    Services Other Than Personal ............................. ( $3,343,000)

 

Special Purpose:

07     Civilly Committed Sexual Offender Program .............. ( 57, 000)

 

 

   Department of Corrections, Total State Appropriation ....................

 

$3,400,000

 

22 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

40 Community Development and Environmental Management

21  Community Development Management

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, there may be transferred from the Volunteer Emergency Service Organizations Loan Fund, P.L.1987, c.8 to the General Fund as State revenue an amount not to exceed $2,000,000, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting.


46 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

20 Physical and Mental Health

21 Health Services

DIRECT STATE SERVICES

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, there may be transferred from the New Jersey Spinal Cord Research Fund, P.L.1999, c.201, to the General Fund as State revenue an amount not to exceed $9,000,000, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting.

 

54 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development

32 Operation and Support of Educational Institutions

7601  Community Programs

GRANTS-IN-AID

 

01-7601

 

Purchased Residential Care ..................

 

$29,948,000

 

 

 

 

   Total Grants-In-Aid Appropriation,

      Community Programs ....................

 

 

$29,948,000

 

 

Grants-In-Aid:

 

 

 

Grants:

 

01     Group Homes ................................ ( $29,948,000)

 

 

   Department of Human Services, Total State Appropriation ....

 

$29,948,000

 

   Total State Appropriation ..............................................

 

$33,348,000

 

 

94 INTERDEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNTS

70 Government Direction, Management, and Control

74 General Government Services

DIRECT STATE SERVICES

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, there is appropriated $15,820,000 from the Clean Energy Fund for energy efficiency capital projects in State facilities.

 

78 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

60 Transportation Programs

62 Public Transportation

GRANTS-IN-AID

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, in addition to the amount hereinabove appropriated for New Jersey Transit Corporation, there is appropriated $23,280,000 from the Clean Energy Fund for utility costs associated with New Jersey Transit Corporation operations.

     2.  The following language provision in section 85 of P.L.2013, c.77, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2014, is amended to read as follows:

     85.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed [$152,185,000] $190,185,000 from the Clean Energy Fund, including Solar Alternative Compliance Payments attributable to fiscal 2010 and earlier, for transfer to the General Fund as State revenue, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting.

 

     3.  The following language provision is added to the General Provisions of P.L.2013, c.77, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2014:

     Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, there may be transferred from an account established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.2008, c.22 in the Long Term Obligation and Capital Expenditure Fund to the General Fund as State revenue an amount not in excess of $456,787, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting.

 

     4.  The following language provision is added to the General Provisions of P.L.2013, c.77, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2014:

     Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $6,000,000 from the Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund for transfer to the General Fund as State revenue, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting.

 

     5.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill adjusts the FY2014 budget by making supplemental appropriations totaling $$33,348,000 and modifying language provisions.

     This FY2014 supplemental appropriation bill contains the following adjustments to the budget:

·      Appropriates $3,400,000 to the Department of Corrections from the General Fund with $3,343,000 thereof for Institutional Care and Treatment and $57,000 thereof for the Civilly Committed Sexual Offender Program in Direct State Services to cover increased healthcare costs.

·      Permits the transfer of surplus balances of up to $2,000,000 from the Volunteer Emergency Service Organizations Loan Fund to the General Fund.

·      Permits the transfer of surplus balances of up to $9,000,000 from the New Jersey Spinal Cord Research Fund to the General Fund.

·      Appropriates $29,948,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services for Grants-In-Aid funding for Group Homes, to cover increased community placement costs due to the closing of North Jersey Development Center on July 1, 2014 and the Woodbridge Development Center on January 1, 2015.

·      Authorizes the use of $15,820,000 from the Clean Energy Fund to offset General Fund appropriations for energy efficiency capital projects in State facilities.

·      Authorizes the use of $23,280,000 from the Clean Energy Fund to offset General Fund appropriations for the New Jersey Transit Corporation.

·      Permits the transfer of surplus balances of up to $456,787 from the Long Term Obligation and Capital Expenditure Fund to the General Fund.

·      Permits the transfer of surplus balances of up to $6,000,000 from the Unclaimed Utility Deposits Trust Fund to the General Fund.

·      Increases the amount of surplus balances in the Clean Energy Fund to be transferred to the General Fund by $38,000,000, from $152,185,000 to $190,185,000.

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