Bill Text: NJ A2049 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-03 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A2049 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A2049-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2049

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 3, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblyman  STERLEY S. STANLEY

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen Jasey and McKnight

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, P.L.2021, c.133.

 

     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.2021, c.133, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:

 

66 DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY

10 Public Safety and Criminal Justice

19 Central Planning, Direction and Management

1000 Office of the Attorney General

 

GRANTS-IN-AID

099-1000    Office of the Attorney General...................... $10,000,000

                 Total Grants-in-Aid: Appropriation,                                     

                   Law Enforcement ........................................... $10,000,000

Grants-in-Aid:

         06    Community-Based Violence Intervention  $10,000,000

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill appropriates $10 million to the Office of the Attorney General in the Department of Law and Public Safety to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.

     In FY 2022, the State appropriated $10 million to fund Community-Based Violence Intervention (CBVI) Programs to reduce gun violence and help crime victims.

     This $10 million supplemental appropriation will continue the State's support of these initiatives.