Bill Text: NJ S2155 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Makes Fiscal Year 2018 General Fund appropriation of $500,000 for restoration and maintenance of A.J. Meerwald.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-05 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee [S2155 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S2155-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 2155

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED MARCH 5, 2018

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes Fiscal Year 2018 General Fund appropriation of $500,000 for restoration and maintenance of A.J. Meerwald.

 

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, 2018 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved July 4, 2017 (P.L.2017, c.99).

 

     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.2017, c.99, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE

30 EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL, AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

37 CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

GRANTS-IN-AID

07-2540 Development of Historical Resources  ..............................

$500,000

Total Grants-In-Aid Appropriation,                                                                                                 

$500,000

   Cultural and Intellectual Development Services                .

Grants In Aid:

 

 

07 Bayshore Discovery Project - A.J. Meerwald

($500,000)

 

 

     2.    This act shall take immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill will appropriate $500,000 from the General Fund to the Bayshore Discovery Project to provide funding for the restoration and maintenance of the A.J. Meerwald.  The A.J. Meerwald was restored under the Delaware Bay Schooner Project and designated as the State's official tall ship on April 21, 1998.  The ship sails as a symbol of the heritage of the maritime and the Delaware Bay Oyster industries in New Jersey.  The original A.J. Meerwald, an indigenous New Jersey vessel known as a Delaware Bay Oyster Schooner, was built in 1928 with the particular needs of the New Jersey oyster industry in mind.

     The Delaware Bay Schooner Project uses the A.J. Meerwald as a sailing classroom to promote ecological and historical awareness of the Delaware Bay and the waters of New Jersey and surrounding regions 

     The A.J. Meerwald and the Bayshore Discovery Project have been recognized for the impact the program has had on the awareness of the ecological and historical value of the Delaware Bay and the Bay's economic and cultural contributions to New Jersey.

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