Bill Text: NJ A3304 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Clarifies the effective date of the "New Jersey False Claims Act."

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-15 - Assembly Floor Amendment Passed (Conaway) [A3304 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A3304-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3304

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 7, 2010

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  HERB CONAWAY, JR.

District 7 (Burlington and Camden)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Gusciora

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Clarifies the effective date of the "New Jersey False Claims Act."

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the General Assembly on February 17, 2011.

  

An Act concerning false claims and amending P.L.2007, c.265.

 

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

 

     1.    Section 11 of P.L.2007, c.265 (C.2A:32C-11) is amended to read as follows:

     11.  a. A civil action under [this act] P.L.2007, c.265 (C.2A:32C-1 et seq.) may not be brought:

     [a.] (1) More than six years after the date on which the violation of the act is committed; or

   [b.] (2)       More than three years after the date when facts material to the right of action are known or reasonably should have been known by the State official charged with responsibility to act in the circumstances, but in no event more than 10 years after the date on which the violation is committed, whichever occurs last.

     b.    P.L.2007, c.265 (C.2A:32C-1 et seq.) shall apply to all ¹[claims that accrued] acts committed¹ before March 13, 2008 ¹[as long as] provided that:

     (1)¹ the civil action filed pursuant to the "New Jersey False Claims Act," P.L. 2007, c.265 (C.2A:32C-1 et seq.) is brought within the applicable statute of limitations set out in subsection a. of this section¹; and

     (2) the act that is the basis of the claim was not previously the subject of an action filed by the same claimant under the "New Jersey False Claims Act," P.L. 2007, c.265 (C.2A:32C-1 et seq.) or the federal False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. sec. 3729 et seq. prior to the enactment of P.L.    , c.      (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) ¹.

(cf: P.L.2007, c.265, s.11)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.