Bill Text: NJ S2056 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Substituted by A3223 (1R) [S2056 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-S2056-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 2056

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 5, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  PAUL A. SARLO

District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)

Senator  M. TERESA RUIZ

District 29 (Essex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Stack

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires Division of Local Government Services to include certain property tax information on division's web page.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the Senate on February 5, 2015.

  

An Act concerning property tax information posted on the web page of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    The Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs shall post on its Internet web page a summary of property tax data for ¹[each] the current¹ calendar year ¹, and for each of the immediately preceding 10 calendar years¹.

     The property tax data summary shall provide the public with information about the property tax levy for the previous year in each county, municipality, fire district, and school district in the State, and shall include such other statistical information as the division determines to be useful for the public's understanding of the individual components that make up each taxpayer's property tax bill.

     In each year, the data shall include, but shall not be limited to, the amount of the average residential property tax bill for each municipality in the State, the amount of the average homestead credit payment credited against the average property tax bill for each municipality, and the net average residential property tax bill for each municipality, which shall be the remainder of the average residential property tax bill minus the average homestead credit payment.

     The data shall also include, but shall not be limited to, the following information:

     a.    total net valuation taxable,

     b.    state equalization table average ratio,

     c.    net county taxes,

     d.    county library levy,

     e.    county health services levy,

     f.     county open space preservation levy,

     g.    total county levy,

     h.    school property tax levy,

     i.     school property tax levy for consolidated, joint, and regional school districts,

     j.     municipal levy required for debt service of Type I school districts,

     k.    total school levy,

     l.     municipal purposes property tax levy,

     m.   municipal open space preservation levy,

     n.    municipal library levy,

     o.    total municipal levy,

     p.    the total levy used to determine the tax rate for each county, municipality, fire district, and school district; and

     q.    the equalized and non-equalized tax rates for each local unit.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.