Bill Text: NJ SCR133 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

New Jersey Senate Concurrent Resolution 133 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Proposes constitutional amendment authorizing municipalities to provide partial property tax exemption to certain first responders disabled as result of World Trade Center recovery medical condition.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-12-05 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee [SCR133 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-SCR133-Introduced.html

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 133

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 5, 2022

Sponsored by:

Senator JEAN STANFIELD

District 8 (Atlantic, Burlington and Camden)

SYNOPSIS

Proposes constitutional amendment authorizing municipalities to provide partial property tax exemption to certain first responders disabled as result of World Trade Center recovery medical condition.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

As introduced.

A Concurrent Resolution proposing to amend Article VIII, Section I of the New Jersey Constitution by adding a new paragraph.

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the General Assembly concurring):

1. The following proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Jersey is agreed to:

PROPOSED AMENDMENT

Amend Article VIII, Section I, by adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows:

8. The Legislature shall enact a law that permits municipalities, by ordinance, to provide a partial property tax exemption for the residential real estate owned and occupied by certain individuals as a primary residence. Eligible individuals shall be police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians who are disabled as the result of a medical condition related to their presence at the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attack that occurred at that site on September 11, 2001. The partial property tax exemption shall exempt the first 15 percent of the assessed value of the residential real property from taxation.

The law shall require that an individual eligible for the partial property tax exemption provided in this paragraph have a medical condition that has been certified as a covered condition by a federally authorized health program applicable to the World Trade Center as a result of the terrorist attack that occurred at that site on September 11, 2001.

The State shall not reimburse a taxing district for the loss of property tax revenue attributable to such an exemption.

2. When this proposed amendment to the Constitution is finally agreed to pursuant to Article IX, paragraph 1 of the Constitution, it shall be submitted to the people at the next general election occurring more than three months after the final agreement and shall be published at least once in at least one newspaper of each county designated by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Secretary of State, not less than three months prior to the general election.

3. This proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be submitted to the people at that election in the following manner and form:

There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at the general election, the following:

a. In every municipality in which voting machines are not used, a legend which shall immediately precede the question as follows:

If you favor the proposition printed below make a cross (X), plus (+), or check (a) in the square opposite the word "Yes." If you are opposed thereto make a cross (X), plus (+) or check (a) in the square opposite the word "No."

b. In every municipality the following question:

		CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PERMITTING MUNICIPALITIES TO PROVIDE PARTIAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION TO CERTAIN 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS
	YES	Do you approve amending the Constitution to permit a partial property tax exemption for the primary residence of certain first responders? The first responder would have to have responded to the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 terrorist attack. The first responder would have to be disabled due to their presence at the World Trade Center site to qualify. The amendment would require the Legislature to pass a law permitting the exemption.
		INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT
	NO	This amendment permits a municipality to give a partial property tax exemption on the primary residence of certain first responders. The property tax exemption would be for the first 15 percent of the assessed value of the property. The amendment would require the Legislature to pass a law permitting the exemption. A first responder would be eligible for the exemption if the first responder is disabled as the result of their work at the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 terrorist attack. A first responder includes police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians. The State would not reimburse a municipality for the loss of property tax revenue experienced as the result of granting the partial exemption.

STATEMENT

If approved by the voters of the State, this proposed constitutional amendment would permit municipalities, by ordinance, to provide a partial property tax exemption for the primary residence of an eligible first responder. The partial property tax exemption would be on the first 15 percent of the assessed value of the primary residence. The amendment would require the Legislature to pass a law permitting the exemption.

Eligible first responders would include police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians who are disabled as the result of a medical condition related to their presence at the World Trade Center site after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.