New Jersey S 2947: Requires release of bid list prior to bid date under "Local Public Contracts Law."

Bill Text

S2947 

SENATE, No. 2947 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator RAJ MUKHERJI

District 32 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits SDA districts to receive State debt service 
aid for eligible costs of certain school facilities projects.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning school facilities projects in SDA districts and 
amending and supplementing P.L.2000, c.72.� 

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

���� 1.� Section 3 of P.L.2000, 
c.72 (C.18A:7G-3) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� As used in sections 1 
through 30 and 57 through 71 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-1 et al.), sections 14 
through 17 of P.L.2007, c.137 (C.18A:7G-45 through C.18A:7G-48), [and] sections 5, 
7, 12, 15, and 19 through 21 of P.L.2023, c.311 (C.18A:7G-5b et al.), and 
section 3 of P.L.��� , c.���� (C.������� ) (pending before the Legislature as 
this bill), unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: 

���� "Area cost 
allowance" means $138 per square foot for the school year 2000-2001 and 
shall be inflated by an appropriate cost index for the 2001-2002 school year.� 
For the 2002-2003 school year and subsequent school years, the area cost 
allowance shall be established by the commissioner pursuant to subsection h. of 
section 4 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-4).� The area cost allowance used in 
determining preliminary eligible costs of school facilities projects shall be 
that of the year of application for approval of the project;

���� "Capital maintenance 
project" means a school facilities project intended to extend the useful 
life of a school facility, including up-grades and replacements of building 
systems, such as structure, enclosure, mechanical, plumbing and electrical 
systems;

���� "Commissioner" means 
the Commissioner of Education;

���� "Core curriculum content 
standards" means the standards established pursuant to the provisions of 
subsection a. of section 4 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-46);

���� "Cost index" means 
the average annual increase, expressed as a decimal, in actual construction 
cost factors for the New York City and Philadelphia areas during the second 
fiscal year preceding the budget year as determined pursuant to regulations 
promulgated by the development authority pursuant to section 26 of P.L.2000, 
c.72 (C.18A:7G-26);

���� "Debt service" means 
and includes payments of principal and interest upon school bonds issued to 
finance the acquisition of school sites and the purchase or construction of 
school facilities, additions to school facilities, or the reconstruction, 
remodeling, alteration, modernization, renovation or repair of school 
facilities, including furnishings, equipment, architect fees and the costs of 
issuance of such obligations and shall include payments of principal and 
interest upon school bonds heretofore issued to fund or refund such 
obligations, and upon municipal bonds and other obligations which the 
commissioner approves as having been issued for such purposes. Debt service 
pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1978, c.74 (C.18A:58-33.22 et seq.), 
P.L.1971, c.10 (C.18A:58-33.6 et seq.) and P.L.1968, c.177 (C.18A:58-33.2 et 
seq.) is excluded;

���� "Demonstration 
project" means a school facilities project selected by the State Treasurer 
for construction by a redevelopment entity pursuant to section 6 of P.L.2000, 
c.72 (C.18A:7G-6);

���� "Development 
authority" means the New Jersey Schools Development Authority established 
pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2007, c.137 (C.52:18A-237);

���� "District" means a 
local or regional school district established pursuant to chapter 8 or chapter 
13 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, a county special services school 
district established pursuant to article 8 of chapter 46 of Title 18A of the 
New Jersey Statutes, a county vocational school district established pursuant 
to article 3 of chapter 54 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, and a 
district under full State intervention pursuant to P.L.1987, c.399 (C.18A:7A-34 
et al.);

���� "District aid 
percentage" means the number expressed as a percentage derived from 
dividing the district's equalization aid calculated pursuant to section 11 of 
P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-53) as of the date of the commissioner's 
determination of preliminary eligible costs by the district's adequacy budget 
calculated pursuant to section 9 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-51) as of the 
date of the commissioner's determination of preliminary eligible costs;

���� "Excess costs" means 
the additional costs, if any, which shall be borne by the district, of a school 
facilities project which result from design factors that are not required to 
meet the facilities efficiency standards and not approved pursuant to paragraph 
(1) of subsection g. of section 5 of P.L.2000, c