Bill Text: NJ SCR220 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Overrides Governor's line-item veto eliminating Fiscal Year 2012 appropriation to Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor - Seton Hall University.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-07-11 - Lost in the Senate (24-15) [SCR220 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-SCR220-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator RICHARD J. CODEY
District 27 (Essex)
SYNOPSIS
Overrides Governor's line-item veto eliminating Fiscal Year 2012 appropriation to Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor - Seton Hall University.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Concurrent Resolution overriding a line-item veto of a Fiscal Year 2012 appropriation for Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor - Seton Hall University in the Department of the Treasury.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the General Assembly concurring):
1. That the following line-item of appropriation, on page 172 of Senate Bill No. 4000 of 2011 (P.L.2011, c.85) which was the subject of objection by the Governor in the Governor's veto statement of June 30, 2011, be restored to law as follows, the objections thereto of the Governor notwithstanding:
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82 DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY 30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development 36 Higher Educational Services GRANTS-IN-AID |
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47-2155 |
Support to Independent Institutions ............. |
$200,000 |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor -- Seton Hall University |
($200,000) |
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2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be delivered to the Governor, the State Treasurer, and the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education.
STATEMENT
This resolution restores the $200,000 appropriation the Legislature included in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 appropriations act for Clinical Legal Programs for the Poor at Seton Hall University. The Governor struck the entire appropriation from the FY 2012 appropriations act by means of a line-item veto and that in spite of the Governor recommending the very appropriation in the Governor's budget recommendations of February 22, 2011.
The $200,000 will support the clinical program operated by the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall Law. The center provides economically disadvantaged persons free legal representation thereby enabling them to pursue justice in court. Absent the center its clients could not seek legal remedies for their grievances as the paucity of their means precludes them from hiring an attorney.
