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- Referred to finance
- Referred to finance
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Title of bill
An act in relation to moneys of the community projects fund
Purpose or general idea of bill
To ensure that monies allocated for community projects in the state budget be paid, even in the event an incumbent legislator is not in office following the actual allocation.
Summary of specific provisions
Section one of the bill sets forth that no appropriation or re-appropriation, to be funded from the community projects fund in the state budget, shall be reduced or withheld once the legislator who proposed or sponsored the appropriation or re-appropriation is no longer in office and that any commitment made to such appropriation or re-appropriation shall be fully executed. Section two is the effective date.
Justification
Unfortunately, it has become routine for the majority body in each house to cancel or impede the disbursement of funds allocated to community projects sponsored by incumbent legislators when they lose election and will no longer be around in the following legislative year to ensure the funds are disbursed.
Every year thousands of community and not-for-profit organizations throughout the State apply to their respective state representatives in the legislature for community project funds. Many organizations come to rely on these promised disbursements when creating their budgets and expending funds on behalf of their various causes. Cutting off this funding once it has been promised and built into their respective budgets creates tremendous turmoil for these groups and requires them to seek emergency funding or even cancel the events the money is used for.
Simply put, this cannot, and should not happen. This bill will alleviate these problems and ensure community organizations that face themselves in this situation that funding will not be cut off.
Fiscal implications
None to the State.
Legislative history
2007-08 - S.3178 - Died Finance
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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