Bill Text: NJ S2726 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires DMVA to develop online historic tour identifying locations of war battles and places of significance to war efforts in State.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-13 - Substituted by A2805 [S2726 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2726-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator RICHARD J. CODEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Senator NELLIE POU
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DMVA to develop online historic tour identifying locations of war battles and places of significance to war efforts in State.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning tourism and military history in the State and supplementing chapter 3 of Title 38A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs, in consultation with the Division of Travel and Tourism in the Department of State and the New Jersey Historical Commission, shall develop and maintain a website providing information detailing war battles fought and places of historic significance to the military or war efforts in New Jersey. The website shall: (1) specify the date and location, and describe the importance, of each battle that took place on lands within the State or in State waters; and (2) identify, and describe the importance of, locations within the State or in State waters that are, or have been, significant to the military or war efforts, such as those locations used for military operations or training or which house, berth, or preserve historic military equipment, vehicles, or vessels, including battleships, fighter planes, and tanks. The information on the website shall be available as a list and in an online tour format, and shall include, but need not be limited to, information pertaining to battles fought and places that are of historic significance to military actions or war efforts undertaken during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
b. The department shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of the employees of any State, county, or municipal department, authority, board, bureau, commission, agency, or entity, or of Rutgers, The State University, or any other public institution of higher education in the State, as it may require and as may be available to it for the purpose of carrying out its duties under this act.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would require the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs, in consultation with the Division of Travel and Tourism and the New Jersey Historical Commission, to develop a list and an online historic tour of war battles fought and places of historic significance to the military and war efforts in New Jersey and State waters, including locations used for military operations or training or which house, berth, or preserve historic military equipment, vehicles, or vessels (i.e., battleships, fighter planes and tanks). The list and online tour would include information pertaining to battles fought and places that are of historic significance to military actions or war efforts undertaken in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
The department would be authorized to call to its assistance any State, county, or municipal department, authority, board, bureau, commission, agency, or entity, or of Rutgers, The State University, or any other public institution of higher education in the State, for the purpose of carrying out its duties under this bill.
