Bill Text: NJ A1355 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits bill certified for fiscal note or estimate from being released from committee without fiscal note or estimate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee [A1355 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1355-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 1355

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  CHRISTOPHER P. DEPHILLIPS

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits bill certified for fiscal note or estimate from being released from committee without fiscal note or estimate.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act prohibiting bills certified for a fiscal note or fiscal estimate from being released from committee without a fiscal note or fiscal estimate and amending P.L.1980, c.67.

 

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

 

     1.  Section 5 of P.L.1980, c.67 (C.52:13B-10) is amended to read as follows:

     5.  a. When the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer has a complete fiscal note or legislative fiscal estimate, the Officer shall transmit an electronic copy of the fiscal note or legislative fiscal estimate to the sponsor whose name first appears on the bill with a notice that the sponsor may object to the fiscal note or legislative fiscal estimate within three business days after the transmittal of the electronic copy.

     b. If the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer has not received a complete fiscal note or legislative fiscal estimate for a bill that has been certified for such note or estimate, the bill shall not be released from committee unless and until the fiscal note or legislative fiscal estimate is complete. 

(cf: P.L.2007, c.151, s.5)

 

     2.  This act shall take effect on the first day of the third month following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits a bill that that has been certified for a fiscal note or legislative fiscal estimate from being released from committee unless and until the fiscal note or legislative fiscal estimate is complete.