Bill Text: NJ A4184 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires DCA to allow hiring of information technology and cybersecurity professionals pursuant to shared service incentive programs.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-08 - Approved P.L.2023, c.52. [A4184 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A4184-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4184

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 2, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  P. CHRISTOPHER TULLY

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Space, Wirths and Assemblywoman Park

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DCA to allow hiring of information technology and cybersecurity professionals pursuant to shared service incentive programs.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee on February 9, 2023, with amendments.

  

An Act requiring ¹[shared service incentive programs] Department of Community Affairs¹ to allow hiring of information technology and ¹[cyber security] cybersecurity¹ professionals ¹pursuant to shared service incentive programs¹ and supplementing P.L.2007, c.63 (C.40A:65-1 through C.40A:65-35).

 

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

 

     1.  a.  ¹[No State agency] The Department of Community Affairs¹ shall ¹not¹ exclude the hiring of information technology or cybersecurity professionals pursuant to a shared services agreement from any program, activity, assistance, or offering, administered by the ¹[State agency] department¹ to incentivize local units to enter into shared services agreements ¹when information technology or cybersecurity shared services are potential eligible uses of program funds.  Nothing in this section shall limit the ability of the department to define categories of eligible hiring costs, establish a maximum number of years for which hiring costs are eligible, or to establish eligibility criteria including, but not limited to, cost effectiveness, efficiencies generated, and serving the public interest¹.

     b.    For the purposes of this section, ¹["State agency"] "department"¹ means ¹[any State department, and any authority, commission, office, department, division, bureau, board, or any other agency or instrumentality thereof, including institutions of higher education] the Department of Community Affairs¹.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect ¹[immediately] on the first day of the third month next following enactment, except that the Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as may be necessary for the implementation of this act¹.