New Jersey 2024 2024-2025 Regular Session

New Jersey Assembly Bill A854 Introduced / Bill

Filed 12/19/2023

                    ASSEMBLY, No. 854   STATE OF NEW JERSEY 221st LEGISLATURE    PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION   

ASSEMBLY, No. 854 



STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

  

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

   Sponsored by: Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer) Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY District 35 (Bergen and Passaic) Assemblyman  STERLEY S. STANLEY District 18 (Middlesex)         SYNOPSIS      Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.    CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT       Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.     

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblyman  STERLEY S. STANLEY

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Supplemental appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives. 

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

   

 A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, P.L.2021, c.133.        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.2021, c.133, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:   66 DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY 10 Public Safety and Criminal Justice 19 Central Planning, Direction and Management 1000 Office of the Attorney General   GRANTS-IN-AID 099-1000    Office of the Attorney General...................... $10,000,000                  Total Grants-in-Aid: Appropriation,                                                          Law Enforcement ........................................... $10,000,000 Grants-in-Aid:          06    Community-Based Violence Intervention  $10,000,000        2.    This act shall take effect immediately.     STATEMENT        This bill appropriates $10 million to the Office of the Attorney General in the Department of Law and Public Safety to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.      In FY 2022, the State appropriated $10 million to fund Community-Based Violence Intervention (CBVI) Programs to reduce gun violence and help crime victims.       This $10 million supplemental appropriation will continue the State's support of these initiatives. 

A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, P.L.2021, c.133.

 

     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.2021, c.133, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:

 

66 DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY

10 Public Safety and Criminal Justice

19 Central Planning, Direction and Management

1000 Office of the Attorney General

 

GRANTS-IN-AID

099-1000    Office of the Attorney General...................... $10,000,000

                 Total Grants-in-Aid: Appropriation,                                      

                   Law Enforcement ........................................... $10,000,000

Grants-in-Aid:

         06    Community-Based Violence Intervention  $10,000,000

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill appropriates $10 million to the Office of the Attorney General in the Department of Law and Public Safety to fund community-based violence intervention initiatives.

     In FY 2022, the State appropriated $10 million to fund Community-Based Violence Intervention (CBVI) Programs to reduce gun violence and help crime victims. 

     This $10 million supplemental appropriation will continue the State's support of these initiatives.