New Jersey A 1052: Upgrades certain penalties for criminal street gang recruitment and criminality; imposes mandatory minimum sentence for certain offenses; establishes accomplice liability and imposes restrictions for certain recruiters.

Bill Text

A1052 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1052 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

SYNOPSIS

���� Concerns conditions of employment of certain cannabis 
workers.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning conditions of employment for certain 
cannabis workers, amending P.L.1968, c.303, and supplementing Title 34 of the 
Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� Section 5 of P.L.1968, 
c.303 (C.34:13A-5.1) is amended to read as follows:

���� 5.��� There is hereby 
established a Division of Public Employment Relations and a Division of Private 
Employment Dispute Settlement.

���� (a)�� The Division of Public 
Employment Relations shall be concerned exclusively with matters of public 
employment related to determining negotiating units, elections, certifications 
and settlement of public employee representative and public employer disputes 
and grievance procedures.� For the purpose of complying with the provisions of 
Article V, Section IV, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, the Division 
of Public Employment Relations is hereby allocated within the Department of 
Labor and Workforce Development, and located in the city of Trenton, but 
notwithstanding said allocation, the office shall be independent of any 
supervision or control by the department or by any board or officer thereof.

���� (b)� The Division of Private 
Employment Dispute Settlement shall assist the New Jersey State Board of 
Mediation in the resolution of disputes in private employment.� The New Jersey 
State Board of Mediation, its objectives and the powers and duties granted by this 
act and the act of which this act is amendatory and supplementary shall be 
concerned exclusively with matters of private employment and the office shall 
continue to be located in the city of Newark.

���� (c)�� In the case of a private 
employer that has any employees not subject to the provisions of the 
National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. s.151 et seq.), or is not regulated 
by the National Labor Relations Board pursuant to [the National Labor Relations Act (29 
U.S.C. s.151 et seq.)] 
that act, the New Jersey State Board of Mediation shall designate a 
representative for a unit of those employees of the private employer, 
or any employees of the employer if the employer is not regulated by that act, 
for the purposes of collective bargaining when:

���� (1)� In any case in which the 
board determines that there is no current majority representative and 
only one employee organization is seeking to be the majority representative, 
that organization demonstrates that a majority of employees in the unit have 
shown their preference to have that organization be their representative by 
signing authorization cards indicating that preference; or

���� (2)� The employees in the unit 
have selected a representative by an election that conforms with the procedures 
outlined in section 159 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. s.159).

���� For the purposes of paragraph 
(1) of this subsection, an authorization card indicating preference shall not 
be valid unless it is printed in a language understood by the employee who 
signs it.

���� An employee organization 
seeking to be recognized as a majority representative, either by a card 
authorization procedure pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection or by an 
election pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection, is permitted, but not 
required, to petition the New Jersey State Board of Mediation to require the 
employer to file, within not more than 48 hours, and in the manner required by 
the board, a complete and accurate list of the full names, current street 
addresses, and job classifications of the current employees, and phone numbers 
or other employee contact information available to the employer, which the 
board shall immediately convey to the employee organization.� Any employer 
who refuses to provide information requested by the New Jersey State Board of 
Mediation or otherwise acts to prevent the board from carrying out its 
responsibilities pursuant to this subsection (c) shall have violated this 
subsection and shall be liable to a fine of not more than [$1,000] $5,000 for 
each day that the employer fails to provide a complete response or otherwise 
prevents the board from carrying out its responsibilities, to be recovered 
under the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 
(C.2A:58-10 et seq.) in the name of the board and to be used by the board for 
costs of implementing this subsection.� In addition, an employee organization 
seeking to represent the employees of the employer may institute an action in a 
court of competent jurisdiction to obta