New Jersey A 3252: Requires Commissioner of DOH to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.

Bill Text

A3252 

ASSEMBLY, No. 3252 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman DAN HUTCHISON

District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman CODY D. MILLER

District 4 (Atlantic, Camden and Gloucester)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires municipalities and counties to utilize 
cost-saving practices under cooperative purchasing systems when procuring 
energy-related goods and services.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning cooperative purchasing by certain 
contracting units, amending P.L.1971, c.198 and P.L.1999, c.440, and 
supplementing chapter 27D of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.1971, 
c.198 (C.40A:11-2) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� As used herein the 
following words have the following definitions, unless the context otherwise 
indicates:

���� (1)�� "Contracting 
unit" means:

���� (a)�� Any county; [or]

���� (b)�� Any municipality; or

���� (c)�� Any board, commission, 
committee, authority or agency, which is not a State board, commission, 
committee, authority, except as provided pursuant to P.L.2013, c.4, or agency, 
and which has administrative jurisdiction over any district other than a school 
district, project, or facility, included or operating in whole or in part, 
within the territorial boundaries of any county or municipality which exercises 
functions which are appropriate for the exercise by one or more units of local 
government, including functions exercised in relation to the administration and 
oversight of a tourism district located in a municipality in which authorized 
casino gaming occurs, and which has statutory power to make purchases and enter 
into contracts awarded by a contracting agent for the provision or performance 
of goods or services.

���� The term shall not include a 
private firm that has entered into a contract with a public entity for the 
provision of water supply services pursuant to P.L.1995, c.101 (C.58:26-19 et 
al.).

���� "Contracting unit" 
shall not include a private firm or public authority that has entered into a 
contract with a public entity for the provision of wastewater treatment 
services pursuant to P.L.1995, c.216 (C.58:27-19 et al.).

���� "Contracting unit" 
shall not include a duly incorporated nonprofit association that has entered 
into a contract with the governing body of a city of the first class for the 
provision of water supply services or wastewater treatment services pursuant to 
section 2 of P.L.2002, c.47 (C.40A:11-5.1).

���� "Contracting unit" 
shall not include an entity that has entered into a contract for management and 
operation services with a local hospital authority established pursuant to 
P.L.2006, c.46 (C.30:9-23.15 et al.).

���� (2)�� "Governing 
body" means:

���� (a)�� The governing body of 
the county, when the purchase is to be made or the contract or agreement is to 
be entered into by, or on behalf of, a county; [or]

���� (b)�� The governing body of 
the municipality, when the purchase is to be made or the contract or agreement 
is to be entered into by, or on behalf of, a municipality; or

���� (c)�� Any board, commission, 
committee, authority or agency of the character described in subsection (1) (c) 
of this section.

���� (3)�� "Contracting 
agent" means the governing body of a contracting unit, or appointed 
membership of a State authority authorized to enter into a cooperative 
purchasing agreement pursuant to P.L.2013, c.4, or its authorized designee, 
which has the power to prepare the advertisements, to advertise for and receive 
bids and, as permitted by [this 
act,] the 
"Local Public Contracts Law," P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.), 
to make awards for the contracting unit in connection with purchases, contracts 
or agreements.

���� (4)�� "Purchase" 
means a transaction, for a valuable consideration, creating or acquiring an 
interest in goods, services and property, except real property or any interest 
therein.

���� (5)�� (Deleted by amendment, 
P.L.1999, c.440[.])

���� (6)�� "Professional 
services" means services rendered or performed by a person authorized by 
law to practice a recognized profession, whose practice is regulated by law, 
and the performance of which services requires knowledge of an advanced type in 
a field of learning acquired by a prolonged formal course of specialized 
instruction and study as distinguished from general academic instruction or 
apprenticeship and training.� Professional services may also mean services 
rendered in the provision or performance of goods or services that are original 
and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic endeavor.

���� (7)�� "Extraordinary 
unspecifiable services" means services which are specialized and 
qualitative in nature requir