Bill Text: NJ A5642 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $2 million for Route 539, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst overpass project.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-24 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee [A5642 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A5642-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 5642

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 24, 2019

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes FY 2020 supplemental appropriation of $2 million for Route 539, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst overpass project.

 

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, 2020 and regulating the disbursement thereof, "  approved      , 2019 (P.L.2019, c.   ).

 

     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.2019, c.   , the annual State appropriations act for fiscal year 2020, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

78 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

60 Transportation Projects

61 State and Local Highway Facilities

CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION

71-6200 Capital Program Management ................................

$2,000,000

Total Capital Construction Appropriation,

$2,000,000

  State and Local Highway Facilities ..........................

Capital Projects:

 

 

   71  Route 539, Lakehurst, Joint Base

           McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst

           Overpass Project .........................

 

 

($2,000,000)

 

 

  Department of Transportation,

     Total State Appropriation ...................................

$2,000,000

 

  Total Appropriation, General Fund ............................

$2,000,000

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill supplements the FY 2020 appropriations act by appropriating $2,000,000 for the Department of Transportation to fund an overpass project on Route 539, which bisects Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Ocean County.  The construction of this overpass would allow large convoys of military vehicles to cross beneath the highway from the Fort Dix and McGuire sections of the joint base to the Lakehurst side without having to use both Route 70 and 539.

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