Bill Text: NJ S1525 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Appropriates $300,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee [S1525 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S1525-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 1525

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 13, 2020

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  NILSA CRUZ-PEREZ

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Senator  DAWN MARIE ADDIEGO

District 8 (Atlantic, Burlington and Camden)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $300,000 from General Fund to New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.

 

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, 2020 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2019 (P.L.2019, c.150).

 

     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.2019, c.150, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE

30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development

36 Higher Educational Services

GRANTS-IN-AID

82-2415 New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station - Rutgers                                   University.........................................................................................

$300,000

Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,                                                                                                 

$300,000

      Higher Educational Services ...........................................

Grants-in-Aid:

 

 

82  New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station - Rutgers University........................................

($300,000)

 

 

Of the amount hereinabove appropriated for the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station - Rutgers University, $300,000 shall be allotted to continue and expand the Rutgers Veterans Environmental Technology and Solutions program.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides a supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University for the Veterans Environmental Technology and Solutions (VETS) program.

     The VETS program is an initiative that seeks to empower local unemployed veterans with environmental job skills.  Local veterans receive an educational stipend while undergoing certified training programs in a range of sustainable landscaping, environmental, and business skills.  New trainees learn through a combination of in-class lectures, site visits, and hands-on engagement within the community.  The VETS program also provides resources to help participating veterans readjust to civilian life, become self-sufficient, and re-engage in their community through environmental improvement initiatives.

     The Essex County VETS program was established in 2014, as a collaborative effort between the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension, the Metropolitan Resurrection Community Development Corporation, and the Lower Passaic River Study Area Cooperating Parties Group.

     The funds appropriated under this bill would be allotted to the VETS program for the continuation and expansion of the program now that program funding has ended.

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