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Introduced Session

This bill would mandate the restoration of reductions to open space payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) provided to certain municipalities pursuant to the "Garden State Preservation Trust Act," P.L.1999, c.152 (C.13:8C-1 et seq). Specifically, this bill requires the State to pay annually each municipality an amount not less than its PILOT in State fiscal year 2010. The State fiscal year 2011 appropriations act reduced the appropriation for this program by one-third, from $9.824 million to $6.473 million. Payments to municipalities that received less than $5,000 in the previous fiscal year were eliminated. These payments are made from the General Fund and not from moneys constitutionally dedicated for the purposes of the Garden State Preservation Trust. This bill appropriates $3.4 million form the General Fund to the Department of Community Affairs for distribution to eligible municipalities as PILOTs.

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Bob Andrzejczak (D)*,  Steven Oroho (R)*,  Robert Andrews (D),  Jeff Van Drew (R), 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee (on 02/01/2018)