Bill Text: NJ S3587 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-25 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S3587 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S3587-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 3587

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 25, 2021

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes $10.5 million supplemental appropriation for increased Per Capita Library Aid.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

A Supplement to the Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations act, P.L.2020, c.97.

 

     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.2020, c.97, the annual appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2021, there is appropriated the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 37 Cultural and Intellectual Development Services 2541 Division of State Library   STATE AID
51-2541	Per Capita Library Aid (PTRF)..................................................			$10,500,000
	Total State Aid Appropriation,           Division of State Library.......................................			$10,500,000
State Aid:
51		Per Capita Library Aid..................................	($10,500,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $10.5 million from the Property Tax Relief Fund to increase the State funding for Per Capita Library Aid in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. 

     The purpose of the bill is to better enable libraries to serve the public with access to information and cultural enrichment.