Bill Text: NJ S2890 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

New Jersey Senate Bill 2890 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Makes $2.561 million supplemental appropriation for increased aid to Liberty Science Center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-10-15 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee [S2890 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S2890-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 2890

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED AUGUST 27, 2018

Sponsored by:

Senator SANDRA B. CUNNINGHAM

District 31 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

Makes $2.561 million supplemental appropriation for increased aid to Liberty Science Center.

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, 2019 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved July 1, 2018 (P.L.2018, c.53).

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.2018, c.53, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

94 INTERDEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNTS *70 Government Direction, Management, and Control* *74 General Government Services* GRANTS-IN-AID
09-9460 Aid to Independent Authorities....................................		$2,561,000
Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,		$2,561,000
General Government Services...................................
*Grants-in-Aid*:
09 Liberty Science Center.....................	($2,561,000)

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $2.561 million to the Liberty Science Center, an interactive learning center that is visited by hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and parents each year.

The 2019 annual appropriation act appropriated $10.799 million to the Liberty Science Center, $1 million more than the Governor requested in his budget message. However, the appropriation is approximately $2.5 million less than it received from appropriations in prior years. This supplemental appropriation therefore grants the approximate difference in additional funds between what was received in prior years and what was appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.