The last time Delaware, which along with Alaska joined the advisory on Tuesday, was added to the now-35 strong state and territory list, its governor declared he was "mad as hell."

Despite promising signs from the Jersey Shore of establishments and customers “stepping up" to an array of public health rules meant to stymie the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Phil Murphy warned there are still signs of non-compliance across the state.

“We need to come out of this extenuated pause period,” said NJBIA President and CEO Michele Siekerka.

Applications open Monday for the aid, available to companies deemed "non-essential" at the onset of the pandemic to reimburse costs and loss of revenue.

Meanwhile, the state has seen its highest numbers of new daily cases of the virus in weeks, with more than 3,000 accounted for over the past seven days.

The allocation is part of $472 million in CARES Act funding announced by Secretary Ben Carson to assist low-income families during COVID-19.

Income tax came in at $3.4 billion, a 254 percent increase from the $948 million the state took in last year. Corporate business tax collections came in at $589 million, a 231 percent increase from the $177 million the state saw last July.

With such a small group of applicants missing out on the initial $20 million in funding, there could be plenty to go around—a rare scenario at a time where government aid is in high demand.

“The virus is still out there, people are still hesitant to return to their normal,” said Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations economist Michael Merrill. “At some point the return to work is going to top out, and we’re going to be stuck there until we can figure out how” to take control of the virus.

“This means that when I present my new budget for the 2021 fiscal year in roughly two weeks, our schools can be funded, our residents and communities can be protected, and our state can move forward,” the governor said at a briefing in Trenton.

But in a 57-page opinion written by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, the Court imposed some limitations on the borrowing authority.

The research team’s final report will include analysis of the number of qualified minority-, women-, veteran- and/or LGBTQ-owned businesses ready and available to do business and contract with the agency in each market sector and an assessment of its historic utilization of these businesses in similar contracts.