SENATE, No. 3527

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 9, 2021

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  STEPHEN M. SWEENEY

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Senator  STEVEN V. OROHO

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators O'Scanlon and Singleton

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $10 million in federal funds to Department of Agriculture to support food bank organizations.

 

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, and upon certification by the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury that federal funds to support the expenditures listed below are available, the following sum is appropriated:

 

10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

40 Community Development and Environmental Management

49 Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation

GRANTS-IN-AID

05-3350

Food and Nutrition Services ..............................................

$10,000,000

 

Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,                                Agricultural Resources, Planning, and Regulation…………….

$10,000,000

Grants-in-Aid:

 

 

05

Coronavirus Relief Fund – Assistance to Food Bank Organizations...............

($10,000,000)

 

 

The amount hereinabove appropriated for Coronavirus Relief Fund – Assistance to Food Bank Organizations shall be allocated from a portion of those federal block grant funds allocated to the State from the “Coronavirus Relief Fund,” established pursuant to the federal “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,” Pub.L.116-136.

 

The amount hereinabove appropriated for Coronavirus Relief Fund – Assistance to Food Bank Organizations shall be allocated as follows:  the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, $5,200,000; the Food Bank of South Jersey, $1,500,000; Fulfill Monmouth & Ocean, $1,500,000; Mercer Street Friends Food Bank, $1,100,000; Norwescap, $300,000; Southern Regional Food Distribution Center, $300,000; and Farmers Against Hunger, $100,000.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill appropriates $10 million to the Department of Agriculture from a portion of those federal block grant funds allocated to the State from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) established pursuant to the federal “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,” Pub.L.116-136.  The bill requires the funds to be distributed to seven food bank organizations.