Sponsored by:
Assemblyman   VINCENT MAZZEO
District 2 (Atlantic)
Assemblyman   BRIAN BERGEN
District 25 (Morris and Somerset)
Assemblyman   HAROLD "HAL" J. WIRTHS
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
 
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen McGuckin, Catalano and Assemblywoman Stanfield
 
 
 
 
SYNOPSIS
        Appropriates $300 million to EDA for small business and not-for-profit organization assistance.
 
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
        As introduced.
   
An Act allocating funding for small business and not-for-profit organization assistance, and making an appropriation.
 
        Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
 
        1.       There is appropriated from the General Fund to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority the sum of $300 million, first, if available, from a portion of those federal block grant funds allocated to the State from the federal    Coronavirus Relief Fund,    established pursuant to the federal    Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,    Pub.L.116-136, for use by the authority to provide financial support, such as loans or grants, to small businesses and not-for-profit organizations for the costs associated with business operation interruptions caused by any State-required closures due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
        2.       This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
STATEMENT
 
        This bill makes a $300 million appropriation to the EDA, first, if available, from a portion of those federal block grant funds allocated to the State from the federal    Coronavirus Relief Fund,    established pursuant to the federal    Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,    Pub.L.116-136, for use by the EDA to provide financial support, such as loans or grants, to small businesses and not-for-profit organizations generally for the costs associated with business operation interruptions caused by any State-required closures due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.