Sponsored by:
Senator ROBERT M. GORDON
District 38 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
Overrides Governor's line-item veto eliminating appropriation to Rutgers University for Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor - Newark Law School.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Concurrent Resolution overriding a line-item veto of an appropriation to Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey for Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor - Newark Law School.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the General Assembly concurring):
1. That the following line-item of appropriation, on page 163 of Senate Bill No. 4000 of 2011 (P.L.2011, c.85), which was the subject of objection by the Governor in the Governor's veto statement of June 30, 2011, be restored to law as follows, the objections thereto of the Governor notwithstanding:
74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE
30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development
36 Higher Educational Services
2410 Rutgers, The State University
GRANTS-IN-AID
82-2410 Institutional Support ................................................. $200,000
Grants-in-Aid:
82 Clinical Legal Programs for the
Poor - Newark Law School .............................. ($200,000)
2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be delivered to the Governor, the State Treasurer, and the Secretary of State.
STATEMENT
This resolution restores the amount of an item of appropriation in the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2012 that was eliminated by the Governor's line-item veto.
The Grants-In-Aid line-item appropriation to Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in the amount of $200,000 for Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor - Newark Law School was eliminated in its entirety by the Governor in accordance with the Governor's veto statement of June 30, 2011.
The Legislature seeks through this concurrent resolution to restore the full amount of State funding that was recommended for appropriation ($200,000) to Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey for Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor - Newark Law School as proposed in the Governor's budget recommendations of February 22, 2011.