Sponsored by:
Senator LINDA R. GREENSTEIN
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
Senator JAMES BEACH
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Zwicker, Singleton, Testa and Ruiz
SYNOPSIS
Provides project grants under “Securing Our Children’s Future Fund” for career and technical education at county colleges; appropriates $19,993,837.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning project grants under the “Securing Our Children’s Future Fund” to provide career and technical education at county colleges and making an appropriation.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. There is appropriated from the “Securing Our Children’s Future Fund,” established pursuant to section 13 of P.L.2018, c.119, to the Secretary of Higher Education the sum of $19,993,837 to provide career and technical education grants to county colleges. Project grants shall be awarded in the amounts set forth in subsection b. of this section.
b. Project grants shall be awarded in the amounts as follows:
(1) $4,000,000 to Camden County College in Blackwood and Camden, Camden County;
(2) $4,000,000 to Essex County College in Newark, Essex County;
(3) $3,381,337 to Passaic County Community College in Wayne, Passaic County;
(4) $4,000,000 to Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, Somerset County;
(5) $3,750,000 to Rowan College of South Jersey in Sewell, Gloucester County; and
(6) $862,500 to Sussex County Community College in Newton, Sussex County.
2. The expenditure of sums appropriated by this act shall be subject to the provisions and conditions of the “Securing Our Children’s Future Bond Act,” P.L.2018, c.119.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill appropriates a total of $19,993,837 from the “Securing Our Children’s Future Fund” for career and technical education grants to the State’s county colleges. The expenditure of the grants would be subject to the provisions and conditions of the “Securing Our Children’s Future Bond Act.”