SENATE, No. 2350

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 15, 1997

By Senator LaROSSA

An Act Appropriating funds to the Department of Corrections from the "Public Purpose Buildings and Community-Based Facilities Construction Fund" for the expansion of various correctional facilities.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. There is appropriated to the Department of Corrections from the "Public Purpose Buildings and Community-Based Facilities Construction Fund" created pursuant to the "Public Purpose Buildings and Community-Based Facilities Construction Bond Act of 1989," P.L.1989, c.184, the sum of $8,926,336 for the following projects:

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    Jones Farm

            Construct 200-bed dormitory

            unit with support building...............$7,020,000

    Northern State Prison

            Adjusted Final contract cost for

            additional beds..............................$1,540,659                         

    Emergency security upgrades at Northern

    and Riverfront State Prisons.................$ 365,677

    Total Appropriation...................................................$8,926,336

    2. There is also appropriated from the "Public Purpose Buildings and Community-Based Facilities Construction Fund," such amounts as may be necessary to meet any expense incurred by the issuing officials under P.L.1989, c.184 for advertising, engraving, printing, clerical, legal or other services necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of that act.

    3. In order to provide flexibility in administering the provisions of this act, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections may apply to the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury for permission to transfer a part of any item to any other item within the respective department accounts in the "Public Purpose Buildings and Community-Based Facilities Construction Fund" account. The transfers shall be made in a manner consistent with section 29 of P.L.1989, c.184.

    4. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill would appropriate $8,926,336 to the Department of Corrections from the "Public Purpose Buildings and Community Based Facilities Construction Fund" created pursuant to the "Public Purpose Buildings and Community-Based Facilities Construction Bond Act of 1989" for the construction of a new 200-bed dormitory unit with support building at the Jones Farm facility, the adjusted final contract cost for additional beds constructed at Northern State Prison and emergency security upgrades at Northern and Riverfront State Prisons.

Appropriates $8,926,336 in 1989 bond funds to the Department of Corrections for the expansion and upgrade of various correctional facilities.