Bill Text: NJ A1903 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-04 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A1903 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-A1903-Amended.html
ASSEMBLY, No. 1903
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOHN S. WISNIEWSKI
District 19 (Middlesex)
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblyman DANIEL R. BENSON
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Requires party bidding on, or performing, a State contract to provide employee health care benefits.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly State and Local Government Committee on December 4, 2017, with amendments.
An Act providing that any party bidding on, or performing, a State contract shall provide employee health care benefits and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The specifications for any contract for the purchase of goods or services, or for the construction of any public work, the cost of which is to be paid, in whole or in part, out of State funds shall require any party bidding on, or performing, the contract, as well as any subcontractor performing under the contract, to provide health care benefits to any employee employed for an average of at least 1[25] 301 hours per week which are at least equivalent to the coverage provided under the basic health care contract described in P.L.1991, c.187 (C.17B:26B-1 et seq.). The provisions of this section shall not apply to a person who is self-employed or doing business as a sole proprietor.
The provisions of this section shall apply to contract specifications prepared after the effective date of this act.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
