Sponsored by:
Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
SYNOPSIS
Makes FY 2023 supplemental Grants-in-Aid appropriation of $150,000 to Department of State for Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House located in Hopewell Borough (Mercer County).
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, P.L.2022, c.49.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2022, c.49, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:
74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE
30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development
37 Cultural and Intellectual Development Services
GRANTS-IN-AID
07-2540 Development of Historical Resources ................... $150,000
Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation,
Cultural and Intellectual Development
Services ........................................................... $150,000
Grants-in-Aid:
07 Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House, Borough of Hopewell (Mercer) – Community Historic Impact Program.. ($150,000)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides a supplemental appropriation of $150,000 to the Department of State for the Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House located in the Borough of Hopewell, Mercer County. The bill requires the funding to be used to establish a program that educates and informs the public on the impact of the Old School Baptist Church on the development of Hopewell Borough and the surrounding community.
The Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House was originally built in the late 1740s on land donated by John Hart. Mr. Hart, one of five delegates from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is buried in a cemetery that is part of the church property.