ASSEMBLY, No. 98

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 16, 2017

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  VINCENT PRIETO

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Muoio

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes appropriation of $400,000,000 to Department of Transportation from revenues and other funds of The Transportation Trust Fund Authority for bridge and road repairs.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act To Amend "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017 and regulating the disbursement thereof,” approved June 30, 2016 (P.L.2016, c.10).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    The following language provision is added to section 1 of P.L.2016, c.10, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2017: 

 

78 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

60 Transportation Programs

61 State and Local Highway Facilities

CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1984, c.73 (C.27:1B-1 et al.), there is appropriated the sum of $400,000,000 from the revenues and other funds of the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority for capital purposes as follows:

Description

County

Amount

Immediate Bridge and Road Repairs

Various

        ($400,000,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill appropriates $400 million to the Department of Transportation from the revenues and other funds of The Transportation Trust Fund Authority for the purposes of repairing roads and bridges in all 21 counties in the State.  It is intended that this appropriation will be expended in the first 100 days following enactment. 

     P.L.2016, c.56 indicates that there shall be $16 billion in appropriations from the funds of The Transportation Trust Fund Authority for FY 2017 through FY 2024.  That proposed multi-year spending goal equates to an average annual appropriation of $2 billion per year.  The current FY 2017 appropriation from the funds of the Transportation Trust Fund Authority is $1.6 billion.  This bill increases the total FY 2017 appropriation to $2 billion.