Bill Text: NJ S2849 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for fish and wildlife management and conservation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S2849 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-S2849-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2849

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 12, 2011

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for fish and wildlife management and conservation.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning voluntary contributions through gross income tax returns to support fish and wildlife management and conservation, supplementing chapter 9 of Title 54A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  There is established in the Department of the Treasury a special fund to be known as the "Fish and Wildlife Management and Conservation Fund."

     b.    Each taxpayer shall have the opportunity to indicate on the taxpayer's New Jersey gross income tax return that a portion of the taxpayer's tax refund or an enclosed contribution shall be deposited in the special fund.

     c.     Any costs incurred by the Division of Taxation for collection or administration attributable to this act may be deducted from receipts collected pursuant to this act, as determined by the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury.  The State Treasurer shall deposit net contributions collected pursuant to this section to the "Fish and Wildlife Management and Conservation Fund."

     d.    The Legislature shall annually appropriate all funds deposited in the "Fish and Wildlife Management and Conservation Fund" to the Division of Fish and Wildlife in the Department of Environmental Protection for the purposes of fish and wildlife management conservation.  

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1 next following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill establishes the "Fish and Wildlife Conservation Management Fund" and provides for a designation on the State gross income tax return that will permit taxpayers to make voluntary contributions to the fund to help support efforts and initiatives administered by the Division of Fish and Wildlife in the Department of Environmental Protection.