Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:9S-4

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The commission shall review any bill introduced in either House of the Legislature, except the annual appropriations bill, which makes provision for an appropriation for a capital project, or for the authorization of the issuance of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the State, or of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of a State agency containing a moral pledge of the State. The commission shall study the necessity, desirability and relative priority of such appropriation or indebtedness by reference to the plan or otherwise. The commission shall promptly prepare and forward its recommendation on the bill to the House in which it was introduced.

L.1975, c. 208, s. 4, eff. Sept. 23, 1975. Amended by L.1984, c. 89, s. 1, eff. July 19, 1984.