Bill Text: NJ A4541 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires State-level bodies to include option for remote participation in public meetings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A4541 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4541-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4541

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 13, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  SHAMA A. HAIDER

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  CARMEN THERESA MORALES

District 34 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires State-level bodies to include option for remote participation in public meetings.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act requiring public meetings by State-level bodies to include an option for remote participation and supplementing P.L.1975, c.231.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  Whenever any department, division, agency, board, commission, authority, task force, or other public body established by State law or by Executive Order of the Governor for the purpose of serving the interests of this State as a whole shall conduct a public meeting within the meaning of P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.), the public body shall provide for the remote participation of the public by means of communication or other electronic equipment.

     b.    Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to any public body established by a political subdivision of the State, or any public body concerned exclusively with issues of a purely local or regional nature.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect 30 days following the date of enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that any department, division, agency, board, commission, authority, task force, or other public body established for the purpose of serving the interests of this State as a whole provide for the remote participation of the public at every public meeting they hold.

     This requirement will not apply to public bodies established by a political subdivision of the State or concerned exclusively with issues of a local or regional nature.