Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH P. CRYAN
District 20 (Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Diegnan
SYNOPSIS
Appropriates $2 million in constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to fund grant program for historic preservation of monuments commemorating veterans.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act appropriating $2 million in constitutionally dedicated corporation business tax revenues to fund a grant program for the historic preservation of monuments commemorating veterans.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Commissioner of Community Affairs, in consultation with the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, shall establish a grant program to provide funding to municipalities for the historic preservation of monuments commemorating veterans. The grants shall be awarded based upon the submission of applications by a municipality in accordance with a process and criteria developed by the Commissioner of Community Affairs in consultation with the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The application shall, at the minimum, include identifying information about the monument or monuments proposed for funding; to the extent possible, a description of the services that may be needed for historic preservation of the monument or monuments; and the amount of the applicants grant request. Grants shall, to the extent possible, be equitably distributed to successful applicants in the northern, central, and southern regions of the State.
b. For the purposes of this section:
Historic preservation means any work relating to the conservation, improvement, interpretation, preservation, protection, rehabilitation, renovation, repair, restoration, or stabilization of any monument commemorating veterans.
Monument commemorating veterans means an area, site, structure, or object that honors a person, or persons, who has served in the Uniformed Services of the United States, including Reserve components and National Guard, and who was, or is reasonably believed to have been, discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
2. There is appropriated to the Department of Community Affairs from the revenue derived from the tax imposed pursuant to the Corporation Business Tax Act (1945), P.L.1945, c.162 (C.54:10A-1 et seq.), and dedicated to recreation and conservation, farmland preservation, and historic preservation purposes pursuant to subparagraph (a) of Article VIII, Section II, paragraph 6 of the State Constitution the sum of $2,000,000 for the purpose of funding grants to assist municipalities in the historic preservation of monuments commemorating veterans.
3. This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would require the Commissioner of Community Affairs, in consultation with the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to establish a grant program for providing funding to municipalities for the historic preservation of monuments commemorating veterans. The bill would appropriate $2,000,000 for the grant programs purposes. These funds would be appropriated from corporation business tax revenues dedicated to recreation and conservation, farmland preservation, and historic preservation purposes pursuant to subparagraph (a) of Article VIII, Section II, paragraph 6 of the State Constitution.
Municipalities would apply for grant funding in accordance with the process and criteria developed by the Commissioner of Community Affairs in consultation with the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The application would be required to include, at minimum, identifying information about the monument or monuments proposed for funding; to the extent possible, a description of the services that may be needed for historic preservation of the monument or monuments; and the amount of the applicants grant request. Grants would be required to be equitably distributed, to the extent possible, to successful applicants in the northern, central, and southern regions of the State.