Bill Text: NJ A3736 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires adoption of business attraction, expansion, and retention master plan for southern New Jersey.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-09-22 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee [A3736 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3736-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman SAMUEL L. FIOCCHI
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Requires adoption of business attraction, expansion, and retention master plan for southern New Jersey.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring the development of a business attraction, expansion, and retention master plan for southern New Jersey and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. As used in P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill):
"Authority" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 3 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-3).
"Business attraction, expansion, and retention master plan" or "master plan" means a strategic and comprehensive plan that establishes short and long-range goals, policies, and needs of State government in efficiently allocating its finite resources towards projects that attract new businesses and retain and expand existing businesses.
"Center" means the New Jersey Business Action Center created in the Department of State.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of State.
"Southern New Jersey" means the counties of Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean, and Salem.
2. a. Within one year after the date of enactment of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the Secretary of State shall develop and implement a business attraction, expansion, and retention master plan for southern New Jersey. The secretary shall update the master plan once every five years thereafter.
b. The purpose of the master plan shall be to develop strategies, policies, legislative proposals, short and long-range goals, and government reforms that are designed to help attract new businesses to, and retain and expand existing businesses in, southern New Jersey and encourage the growth of jobs and capital investment within, and services to, southern New Jersey. The master plan may include recommendations for revising statutes or regulations to remove unnecessary barriers to economic growth if the removal of these barriers would not impact the environment or the health or welfare of the residents of this State.
3. The secretary is authorized to call upon the center and the authority and any other department, authority, commission, board, office, division, or agency of the State to provide any information, resources, or other assistance deemed necessary to discharge the secretary's responsibilities under P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) to develop and implement the master plan. This may include, but not be limited to, calling on: the authority and the Department of the Treasury for advice or information concerning business funding assistance programs; the Department of Labor and Workforce Development for assistance in developing workforce development strategies; the Department of Transportation and the New Jersey Transit Corporation for information and guidance concerning public transportation network and infrastructure projects that would most effectively promote economic growth in the region; the center to assist in business attraction, expansion, and retention strategies and advising on smart growth development strategies; and the Department of Community Affairs for assistance with coordinating between the urban enterprise zone program established by P.L.1983, c.303 (C.52:27H-60 et al.) and the master plan.
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Secretary of State (secretary), within one year of the effective date of the bill, to develop and implement a business attraction, expansion, and retention master plan (master plan) for southern New Jersey. The secretary is to update the master plan once every five years thereafter. The purpose of the master plan is to develop strategies, policies, legislative proposals, short and long range goals, and government reforms that help attract new businesses to, and retain and expand existing businesses in, southern New Jersey and to encourage the growth of jobs and capital investment within, and services to, southern New Jersey. The master plan may include recommendations for revising statutes or regulations to remove unnecessary barriers to economic growth if removing the barriers would not impact the environment or the health or welfare of the residents of this State.
The secretary is authorized to call upon the New Jersey Business Action Center (center) and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (authority) and any other department, authority, commission, board, office, division, or agency of the State to provide any information, resources, or other assistance deemed necessary to discharge the secretary's responsibilities under the bill to develop and implement the master plan. The assistance is to include, but not be limited to: the authority and the Department of Treasury for advice or information concerning business funding assistance programs; the Department of Labor and Workforce Development for assistance in developing workforce development strategies; the Department of Transportation and the New Jersey Transit Corporation for information and guidance concerning public transportation network and infrastructure projects that would most effectively promote economic growth in the region; the center to assist in business attraction, expansion, and retention strategies and advising on smart growth development strategies; and the Department of Community Affairs for assistance with coordinating between the urban enterprise zone program and the master plan.
