---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriates $1.723 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and \"2009 Farmland Preservation Fund\" to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes."
description: "Appropriates $1.723 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and \"2009 Farmland Preservation Fund\" to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nj"
legislature: "New Jersey Legislature"
session: "221"
identifier: "S 2793"
citation: "New Jersey S 2793 (221)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FARMLAND"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cruz-Perez, Nilsa I.", "Fantasia, Dawn", "Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina", "Stanley, Sterley S.", "Turner, Shirley K."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-07-10T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85d8c18d-7926-4c66-bc16-44bd5a99976f"
source_url: "https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/leg-databases/"
source_hash: "9f65a420ad5aee4b1fb77418e531ab46c82adb15d09b77bd43d5566a35041655"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nj"]
---

# New Jersey S 2793 (221) — Appropriates $1.723 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/S3000/2793_I1.HTM)

## Votes

- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported favorably out of committee — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cruz-Perez, Nilsa I. — primary (person)
- Fantasia, Dawn — primary (person)
- Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina — primary (person)
- Stanley, Sterley S. — primary (person)
- Turner, Shirley K. — primary (person)
- Drulis, Mitchelle — cosponsor (person)
- Flynn, Victoria A. — cosponsor (person)
- Freiman, Roy — cosponsor (person)
- Inganamort, Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy, Carol A. — cosponsor (person)
- Space, Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Steinhardt, Douglas J. — cosponsor (person)
- Sumter, Shavonda E. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Transferred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Senate Committee, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-13T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Senate (37-0) `passage`
- **2024-05-13T04:00:00+00:00** Received in the Assembly without Reference, 2nd Reading
- **2024-06-28T04:00:00+00:00** Substituted for A3698
- **2024-06-28T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (76-0-0) `passage`
- **2024-07-10T04:00:00+00:00** Approved P.L.2024, c.30. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85d8c18d-7926-4c66-bc16-44bd5a99976f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Jersey legislature records).