Bill Text: NJ S1615 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-05 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee [S1615 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S1615-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1615

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $1.6 million to Dept. of Agriculture for Jersey Fresh program.

 

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, 2016 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 26, 2015 (P.L.2015, c.63).

 

     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.2015, c.63, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 40 Community Development and Environmental Management 49 Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation DIRECT STATE SERVICES
06-3360 Marketing and Development Services..................................		$1,600,000
Total Direct State Services Appropriation,		$1,600,000
Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation...........
Direct State Services:
Special Purpose: 06          Promotion/Market Development...............	($1,600,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $1.6 million from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture to increase funding for the Jersey Fresh program.

     The Jersey Fresh program is an advertising, promotional, and quality grading program launched in 1984 to help farmers inform consumers about the availability and variety of fruits and vegetables grown in New Jersey, and later expanded to include seafood, landscape plants, and other agricultural products.