Bill Text: NJ S1567 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million for matching grants for deer fencing program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S1567 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S1567-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
SYNOPSIS
Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million for matching grants for deer fencing program.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
A Supplement to the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations act, P.L.2022, c.49.
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.2022, c.49, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, there is appropriated the following sum for the purposes specified:
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10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 40 Community Development and Environmental Management 49 Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation
GRANTS-IN-AID |
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03-3330 |
Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources........................................................ |
$1,500,000 |
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Total Grants-In-Aid Appropriation, Conservation Assistance Program |
$1,500,000 |
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Grants-In-Aid: |
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03 |
Conservation Assistance Program .......................................... |
($1,500,000) |
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2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill makes a one-time supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million for Fiscal Year 2023 to the Department of Agriculture (DOA) from the General Fund. This appropriation would be used to supplement the monies appropriated to provide matching grants for deer fencing on certain farmland pursuant to P.L.2021, c.451 (C.4:20-6.1). The FY 2023 budget allocated $1 million for this purpose.
Pursuant to P.L.2021, c.451 (C.4:20-6.1), a program was established within the DOA to provide matching grants for deer fencing to certain owners and operators of unpreserved farms, farms for which pinelands development credits have been sold or otherwise conveyed pursuant to the Pinelands Development Credit Bank Act, and farms that are located in sending zones under the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act. Under the program, the DOA awards grants of up to $200 per acre, not to exceed a total of $20,000 per applicant for up to 50 percent of eligible project costs, which would include the cost to purchase deer fencing, maintain existing deer fencing, or any other eligible costs.
