Bill > S3543

Introduced Session

This bill establishes requirements for tracking and reporting the progress of New Jersey Civic Information Consortium grantees and requires grantees to include a statement on the grantee's Internet website. The New Jersey Civic Information Consortium is a consortium of six public institutions of higher education whose purpose is to advance research and innovation in the field of media and technology to benefit the State's civic life and evolving information needs. The consortium, with the approval of its board of directors, awards grants for projects that meet the goals of the consortium, provide evidence of a collaboration between at least one academic or administrative representative of a member university and at least one local community organization, media organization, or technology-based organization, and demonstrates that the collaboration is a mutually respectful partnership with community and member university investment in the mission and goals of the consortium. The bill prohibits the consortium from requiring a grant proposal applicant to be a tax exempt organization or obtain a fiscal sponsor that is a tax exempt organization. Under current law, a grant agreement for a grant issued by the consortium is required to include a provision establishing a set of metrics for assessing the goals contained in the agreement to ensure evaluation of a grantee project on how well those metrics are being met and any other relevant accountability measures. The set of metrics is established by the board in conjunction with consortium staff. The bill requires the consortium to track the progress of the grantee towards meeting the goals contained in the agreement through periodic meetings with consortium staff. The bill also requires the grantee to submit a report to the consortium at the end of the grant period. The report is to include a narrative and financial report describing the grantee's activities and progress towards meeting the goals contained in the agreement. Finally, the bill requires the expectations enumerated in the grant agreement to include a statement requiring the grantee to post a statement on its Internet website that the grantee project receives grant funding from the consortium.

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Paul Moriarty (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee (on 09/12/2024)

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