New Jersey S 3641: Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to institute drug take back programs and certain pharmacies to become authorized collectors of unused drugs.

Bill Text

S3641 

SENATE, No. 3641 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 24, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Burgess

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires landlord to provide written explanation for 
rent increase on tenant of senior citizen housing project. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act requiring written explanation for certain rent 
increases and amending P.L.1974, c.49.

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

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.1974, 
c.49 (C.2A:18-61.1) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� No lessee or tenant or 
the assigns, under-tenants or legal representatives of such lessee or tenant 
may be removed by the Superior Court from any house, building, mobile home or 
land in a mobile home park or tenement leased for residential purposes, other 
than (1) owner-occupied premises with not more than two rental units or a 
hotel, motel or other guest house or part thereof rented to a transient guest 
or seasonal tenant; (2) a dwelling unit which is held in trust on behalf of a 
member of the immediate family of the person or persons establishing the trust, 
provided that the member of the immediate family on whose behalf the trust is 
established permanently occupies the unit; and (3) a dwelling unit which is 
permanently occupied by a member of the immediate family of the owner of that 
unit, provided, however, that exception (2) or (3) shall apply only in cases in 
which the member of the immediate family has a developmental disability, except 
upon establishment of one of the following grounds as good cause:

���� a.���� The person fails to pay 
rent due and owing under the lease whether the same be oral or written; 
provided that, for the purposes of this section, any portion of rent unpaid by 
a tenant to a landlord but utilized by the tenant to continue utility service to 
the rental premises after receiving notice from an electric, gas, water or 
sewer public utility that such service was in danger of discontinuance based on 
nonpayment by the landlord, shall not be deemed to be unpaid rent.

���� b.��� The person has continued 
to be, after written notice to cease, so disorderly as to destroy the peace and 
quiet of the occupants or other tenants living in said house or neighborhood.

���� c.���� The person has 
willfully or by reason of gross negligence caused or allowed destruction, 
damage or injury to the premises.

���� d.��� The person has 
continued, after written notice to cease, to substantially violate or breach 
any of the landlord's rules and regulations governing said premises, provided 
such rules and regulations are reasonable and have been accepted in writing by 
the tenant or made a part of the lease at the beginning of the lease term.

���� e.���� (1)� The person has 
continued, after written notice to cease, to substantially violate or breach 
any of the covenants or agreements contained in the lease for the premises 
where a right of

reentry is reserved to the landlord 
in the lease for a violation of such covenant or agreement, provided that such 
covenant or agreement is reasonable and was contained in the lease at the 
beginning of the lease term.

���� (2)�� In public housing under 
the control of a public housing authority or redevelopment agency, the person 
has substantially violated or breached any of the covenants or agreements 
contained in the lease for the premises pertaining to illegal uses of controlled 
dangerous substances, or other illegal activities, whether or not a right of 
reentry is reserved to the landlord in the lease for a violation of such 
covenant or agreement, provided that such covenant or agreement conforms to 
federal guidelines regarding such lease provisions and was contained in the 
lease at the beginning of the lease term.

���� f.���� The person has failed 
to pay rent after a valid written notice to quit and written 
notice of increase of said rent, provided the increase in rent is not 
unconscionable and complies with any and all other laws or municipal ordinances 
governing rent increases.� If the tenant is a resident of a senior citizen 
housing project, as defined in section 2 of P.L.1995, c.144 (C.2A:42-113), then 
the notice of increase in rent shall explain the reasons for the rent 
increase.� This explanation shall:

���� (1)� describe why the rent 
increase is not unconscionable; 

���� (2)� confirm that the rent 
increase complies with all municipal ordinances, and other applicable laws, 
governing rent increases; and

���� (3)� list the expenses, if 
any, associated with the tenant�s unit, and with common areas of the property, 
as applicable, that have contributed to the need for a rent increase.� 

���� g.��� The landlord or owner 
(1) seeks to permanently board up or demolish the premises because he has been 
cited by local or State housing inspectors f