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Bill Text

A1459 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1459 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ANTWAN L. MCCLELLAN

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Simonsen, Bergen and Assemblywoman Fantasia

SYNOPSIS

���� Expands EDA small business loan program to include 
certain broadband telecommunications service providers.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act 
expanding a small business loan program to include certain broadband 
telecommunications service providers, and amending P.L.2011, c.201.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.2011, 
c.201 (C.34:1B-241.1) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� As used in P.L.2011, 
c.201 (C.34:1B-241.1 et seq.):

���� "Authority" means 
the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established by section 4 of 
P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4).

���� �Board� means the Board of 
Public Utilities or any successor agency.

���� "Broadband 
telecommunications service" means any telecommunications service used for 
the purpose of offering high speed, switched, broadband wireline or wireless 
telecommunications capability that enables users to send and receive 
high-quality voice, data, graphics, or video telecommunications through the 
Internet and using any technology and with data transfer speeds of at least 25 
megabits per second download and at least three megabits per second upload.

���� �Broadband telecommunications 
service provider� means a person, business, for-profit or nonprofit corporation, 
unincorporated association, or partnership, including, but not limited to, a 
rural electric cooperative, which is certified by the board to offer broadband telecommunications 
service within a rural area of this State.

���� "Broadband 
telecommunications service provider" means a person, company, corporation, 
unincorporated association, partnership, or professional corporation which is 
certified by the board to offer broadband telecommunications service directly 
to the public, or to classes of users as to be effectively available directly 
to the public, regardless of the facilities used.

���� �Department� means the 
Department of Agriculture established pursuant to R.S.4:1-1.

���� "Eligible farming 
operation" means two or more business entities that are engaged in farming 
operations in the State, that are applying together for participation in the 
small business loan program established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2011, c.201 
(C.34:1B-241.2), and that, at the time of the application, are independently 
owned and operated, participate in an agricultural commodity or product 
marketing and development program operated by the Department of Agriculture, 
and satisfy other criteria

that may be established by the 
authority pursuant to P.L.2019, c.240 (C.34:1B-241.4 et al.).

���� "Eligible small 
business" means a business entity that, at the time of application for 
participation in the small business loan program established pursuant to 
section 2 of P.L.2011, c.201 (C.34:1B-241.2), is independently owned and 
operated, operates primarily within this State, and which satisfies other 
criteria that may be established by the authority.� "Eligible small 
business" shall include qualified dairy farmers [and], eligible farming 
operations, and broadband telecommunications service providers.

���� �Farm equipment� means 
equipment used directly for farming operations.

���� �Farming operations� mean any 
activities connected to the commercial growing, harvesting, processing, 
producing, or raising of agricultural products in the State, including crops, 
dairy animals, livestock, fur-bearing animals, poultry, bees, crops used in 
fermented alcoholic beverages and wine, and any products therefrom, including 
organic agricultural products; aquacultural products; horticultural products; 
and silviculture products.

���� "Qualified dairy 
farmer" means a person or business entity that produces valued-added dairy 
products and that, at the time of application for participation in the small 
business loan program and receipt of a loan under the program, is independently 
owned and operated, operates primarily within this State, and satisfies other 
criteria that may be established by the authority.

���� "Rural area" 
means any area included within the boundaries of any municipality that has a 
population of 30,000 inhabitants or less and a population density less than 
4,000 persons per square mile, according to the latest federal decennial census.

���� "Rural electric 
cooperative" or "cooperative" means a nonprofit corporation 
entitled to the rights, benefits, and protections established pursuant to 
P.L.2017, c.297 (C.48:24-1 et al.).

���� �Value-added dairy product� 
means a dairy product created by a qualified dairy farmer by means of a cha