Bill Text: NJ S3702 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DMVA for air quality studies to support campaign for award of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets at 177th Air National Guard base.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-26 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee [S3702 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S3702-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 3702

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED APRIL 26, 2021

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  DAWN MARIE ADDIEGO

District 8 (Atlantic, Burlington and Camden)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes General Fund supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to DMVA for air quality studies to support campaign for award of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets at 177th Air National Guard base.

 

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, 2021 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved September 29, 2020 (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, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

67 DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS

10 Public Safety and Criminal Justice

14 Military Services

DIRECT STATE SERVICE

60-3600 Joint Training Center Management and Operations............

$50,000

Total Direct State Services Appropriation, Military Services                                                                           

$50,000

......................................................................................

Direct State Services:

 

 

60 Services Other Than Personal.

($50,000)

 

 

      The amounts hereinabove appropriated to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs are for the purpose of having air quality studies conducted to support the efforts to advance New Jersey's candidacy in obtaining the federal award for the F-35 fighter jet at the 177th Air National Guard base.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a General Fund supplemental appropriation of $50,000 to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs for the purpose of having air quality studies conducted to support the efforts to advance New Jersey's candidacy in obtaining the federal award for the F-35 fighter jet at the 177th Air National Guard base.  The United States Air Force is in the process of selecting air bases as potential locations for the deployment of new fighter jets, F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.  By appropriating the funding for air quality studies, the State is supporting efforts to advance New Jersey's candidacy in obtaining the F-35 fighter jets. 

feedback