Bill Text: NJ A3923 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes $500,000 supplemental appropriation for deer fencing grant program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Food Security Committee [A3923 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3923-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Assemblyman ROY FREIMAN
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Makes $500,000 supplemental appropriation for deer fencing grant program.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, P.L. , c.
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.2021, c.133, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:
10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
40 Community Development and Environmental Management
49 Agriculture Resources, Planning, and Regulation
3330 Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources
Direct State Services
03-3330 Deer Fencing Matching Grant Program ................ $500,000
Total Direct State Services appropriation,
Deer Fencing Matching Grant Program ............. $500,000
Direct State Services:
03 Agricultural and Natural Resources ($500,000)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $500,000 from the General Fund to increase the State funding for deer fencing in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. The purpose of the bill would be to provide funding to implement P.L.2021, c.451 (C.4:20-6.1), which established a matching grant program to help farmers protect their crops on unpreserved farmland as well as on certain farms in the Pinelands and Highlands Region.
