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Bill Text

A3653 

ASSEMBLY, No. 3653 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman DONALD A. GUARDIAN

District 2 (Atlantic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires preservation of employee benefits and 
contractual rights as condition of sale of Atlantic City International Airport.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning certain South Jersey Transportation 
Authority employee benefits and amending P.L.1991, c.252.

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

���� 1.��� Section 24 of P.L.1991, 
c.252 (C.27:25A-24) is amended to read as follows:

���� 24.� a.� There is established 
a transportation project, which shall consist of an airport and related 
facilities and activities.� The airport, which shall be known as the 
"Atlantic City International Airport," shall consist of such lands 
and improvements as the authority may acquire in Egg Harbor, Hamilton and 
Galloway townships, county of Atlantic, including but not limited to the lands 
and improvements to be acquired from the city of Atlantic City and lands and 
improvements which may be acquired from the Federal Aviation Administration.� 
The airport shall include but not be limited to any area, place, building, 
structure, equipment, material, supplies, or real property designed to provide 
or be used in, or necessarily related to, the provision of air passenger or 
freight service and the stations, shelters and terminals, heliports, gates, 
terminal aprons, runways, taxiways, air rights, baggage facilities, parking 
facilities, ramps, track connections, signal systems, power systems, public 
highways, noise abatement projects, information and communication systems, 
transit lines and rights-of-way, equipment storage and servicing facilities, 
aircraft, maintenance and garage facilities, revenue handling equipment and any 
other building, structure, equipment, materials, supplies or real property 
employed or used in, or necessarily related to, the provision of these 
services.� 

���� b.��� The authority may enter 
into contracts, leases, or agreements with any agency or instrumentality of the 
federal government, a bi-state agency, the State or any subdivision thereof or 
a county or municipal government, including but not limited to the United 
States Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, concerning 
the acquisition, construction, maintenance, operation, or support of this 
project.� 

���� c.���� The authority may enter 
into agreements with surrounding municipalities for reimbursement to these 
municipalities for costs incurred as a result of services provided by these 
municipalities to the Atlantic City International Airport.� 

���� d.��� Notwithstanding 
section 10 of P.L.2011, c.18 (C.5:12-224), or any other law, rule, or 
regulation to the contrary, if the authority transfers, by sale or lease, all 
or any part of its interest in the Atlantic City International Airport and any 
other lands and improvements that the authority has acquired pursuant to this 
section, or delegates or otherwise transfers responsibility for the management 
or performance of operations conducted or services provided at Atlantic City 
International Airport facilities, the authority shall provide that the 
conditions of the sale, lease, delegation, or other transfer shall not deprive 
any officers or employees of the authority of the rights, privileges, or 
obligations that they enjoyed prior to that sale, lease, delegation, or other 
transfer.� The officers and employees shall retain all of their rights and 
benefits under existing collective negotiation agreements or contracts until 
such time as new or revised agreements or contracts are agreed to or until 
existing agreements or contracts expire.� Any such sale, lease, delegation, or 
other transfer to any agency or instrumentality of the State, including an 
interstate compact agency, or to any political subdivision of the State or any 
agency or instrumentality of such subdivision, shall not affect the civil 
service status, if any, of those officers or employees or their status or 
pension credits with respect to any pension or retirement system.� Any 
accumulated employee benefits, including, but not limited to, sick, vacation, or 
administrative leave, of each South 
Jersey Transportation Authority employee whose employment is transferred 
to another entity, public or private, in relation to the sale or lease of the 
Atlantic City International Airport, or the delegation or other transfer of 
management or operating responsibility with respect thereto, shall be carried 
over to the employee�s position with the entity to which the sale, lease, 
delegation, or other transfer is made.� All existing employee representatives 
shall be retained to act on behalf of those employees until such time as the 
employees shall, purs