Bill Text: NJ A124 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the imposition of affordable housing need and related fees upon the local transfer or move of a business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Community Development and Affairs Committee [A124 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A124-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 124

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2020 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  PARKER SPACE

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblyman  HAROLD "HAL" J. WIRTHS

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits the imposition of affordable housing need and related fees upon the local transfer or move of a business.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning affordable housing obligations and supplementing P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a. Notwithstanding any regulation of the Council on Affordable Housing to the contrary, the council shall not adopt as a part of its methodology in calculating the fair share obligation of any municipality pursuant to the "Fair Housing Act," P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al), a requirement that affordable housing need is generated upon the move or transfer of any commercial or industrial entity from one location to another location within the same municipality, or within the same housing region, or upon a move or transfer of the entity within a 50 mile radius extending in all directions from the initial location of the entity.

     b.    A municipality shall not impose a fee for affordable housing purposes upon a developer meeting the criteria of subsection a. of this section.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits the Council on Affordable Housing from adopting a regulation which would generate affordable housing need for a municipality upon the event of a commercial or industrial entity moving or relocating within the municipality, or within the same housing region of the municipality, or within a 50 mile radius extending in all directions from the initial location of the entity.  Municipalities are prohibited from imposing a fee for affordable housing purposes upon a developer meeting the criteria set forth in the bill.