Sponsored by:
Senator ANTHONY M. BUCCO
District 25 (Morris and Somerset)
Senator STEPHEN M. SWEENEY
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators T.Kean, Madden, Schepisi and Singer
SYNOPSIS
Appropriates $5 million to the New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Fund.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act appropriating $5,000,000 to the New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Fund.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Research Fund established pursuant to section 1 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. 1431 or Assembly Bill No. 3800 of 2020/2021) the sum of $5,000,000 for pediatric cancer research projects that are approved by the Pediatric Cancer Research Fund Board pursuant to section 2 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. 1431 or Assembly Bill No. 3800 of 2020/2021).
b. As used in this section, pediatric cancer research project means the same as that term is defined in section 1 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. 1431 or Assembly Bill No. 3800 of 2020/2021).
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill appropriates $5,000,000 to the New Jersey Pediatric Cancer Fund established pursuant to another bill pending in the current session, Senate Bill No. 1431 or Assembly Bill No. 3800 of 2020/2021, for pediatric cancer research projects that are approved by the Pediatric Cancer Research Fund Board established under that that bill.