Bill Text: NJ A488 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits State appointment or employment of members of Legislature for two years after completion of legislative service.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State Government Committee [A488 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A488-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 488

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  VINCENT J. POLISTINA

District 2 (Atlantic)

Assemblyman  JOHN F. AMODEO

District 2 (Atlantic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Limits appointment or employment of members of Legislature for two years after completion of legislative service.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act imposing a restriction on the appointment or employment of former members of the Legislature and supplementing P.L.1971, c.182 (C.52:13D‑12 et seq.).

 

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

 

1.    A member of the Legislature shall not be eligible to hold, for twenty four months following the termination of service in the Legislature, an office or position: in a principal department in the Executive Branch of State Government; with a division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by a principal department; with an independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency; or with an interstate agency to which New Jersey is a party.

 

2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

The bill will bar a former member of the Legislature, for a period of two years after leaving that office, from holding an office or position: in a principal department in the Executive Branch of State Government; with a division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by a principal department; with an independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency; or with an interstate agency to which New Jersey is a party.