Bill Text: NJ A5987 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends Fiscal Year 2026 annual appropriations act to reassign and clarify distribution of certain funds.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2026-01-20 - Approved P.L.2025, c.391. [A5987 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A5987-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5987

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 17, 2025

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  LUANNE M. PETERPAUL

District 11 (Monmouth)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

      Amends Fiscal Year 2026 annual appropriations act to reassign and clarify distribution of certain funds.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on January 8, 2026, with amendments.

  

An Act amending P.L.2025, c.74, the Fiscal Year 2026 annual appropriations act, to clarify the distribution of certain ¹[Community Resources]¹ funding.

 

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

 

      1.   The following line ¹[item] items¹ of section 1 of P.L.2025, c.74, the annual appropriations act for State Fiscal Year 2026, ¹[is] are¹ amended to read as follows:

 

22 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

50 Economic Planning, Development, and Security

55 Social Services Programs

 

GRANTS-IN-AID

04-8030  Local Government Services ................................ $8,500,000

05-0850  Community Resources........................................ $79,250,000

                 Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, Social Services Programs                                                                           $87,750,000

Grants-in-Aid:

         05   Neptune American Legion Post [46] #346                          .................................................................. ($25,000)

 

¹54 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

20 Physical and Mental Health

26 Division of Aging Services

 

GRANTS-IN-AID

24-7530	Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled	$55,357,000
	(From General Fund:$50,268,000)
	(From Casino Revenue Fund:$5,089,000)
55-7530	Programs for the Aged	$64,977,000
	(From General Fund:$49,143,000)
	(From Casino Revenue Fund:$15,834,000)
	Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, Division of Aging Services	$120,334,000
	(From General Fund:$99,411,000)
	(From Casino Revenue Fund:$20,923,000)

 

Grants-in-Aid:

55

[Interfaith Neighbors  -] Meals on Wheels [in] of Ocean County

($100,000)1

(cf: P.L.2025, c.74, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.