New Jersey A 1226: "Personal Injury Trust Fund Transparency Act;" requires plaintiff to file personal injury trust claims under certain circumstances; addresses allocation of trust claims; establishes scheduling and discovery requirements for certain tort actions.

Bill Text

A1226 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1226 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblywoman DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts contaminated and industrially-zoned sites 
from affordable housing rules.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning affordable housing and supplementing 
P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al.).

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

���� 1.��� Notwithstanding any 
regulation of the Council on Affordable Housing to the contrary, no fair share 
obligation shall result from and no fees by municipalities shall be permitted 
to be charged to a developer pursuant to the �Fair Housing Act,� P.L.1985, c.222 
(C.52:27D-301 et al.), upon the construction of facilities on land that has 
been designated as a contaminated site by the New Jersey Department of 
Environmental Protection or that is zoned for industrial use.

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill would prohibit the 
Council on Affordable Housing to the calculate fair share affordable housing 
obligation for a municipality on the basis of any development of contaminated 
sites or industrial sites within its borders.� In addition, the bill directs 
that a municipality shall not charge fees to a developer pursuant to the �Fair 
Housing Act,� P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-301 et al.), upon the developer�s 
remediation of a contaminated site or application for development of an 
industrially-zoned site.

���� Developers and others expend 
significant resources to turn land which has been contaminated with toxins into 
useful, developable land.� In addition, the development of a certain amount of 
land within a municipality for industry is not only desirable, but necessary to 
support the residential housing in the community.� Under the council�s formula 
for the fair share housing obligation, promulgated pursuant to the �Fair 
Housing Act,� a municipality could be faced with an increase of its affordable 
housing obligation upon a contaminated remediation, or upon the development of 
any industrially zoned land.� In addition, the developer of the such land may 
be charged fees by the municipality if all of the land will not be used for 
affordable housing construction.� This results in a great disincentive to 
remediate contaminated and for industry to locate to a municipality.� Some 
experts estimate that New Jersey is quickly running out of developable land, 
and therefore incentives to remediate contaminated land should be provided, 
rather than policies which serve as disincentives to such remediation.� The 
economic necessity of attracting business and industry to New Jersey speaks for 
itself.� Since industrial zones are permitted under current land use statutes, 
development of such zones should not be discouraged.