New Jersey A 376: Establishes Animal Cruelty Offender Registry; prohibits purchase, adoption, and breeding of animals by animal cruelty offenders.

Bill Text

A376 

ASSEMBLY, No. 376 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman VICTORIA A. FLYNN

District 13 (Monmouth)

Assemblywoman TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblyman ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson, Assemblymen Myhre, Rumpf 
and Scharfenberger

SYNOPSIS

���� Allows each county to create central registry and 
provide emergency supply kits to distribute to senior residents during 
emergencies.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning emergency management, supplementing 
chapter 9 of Appendix A, and making appropriations.� 

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

���� 1.��� a.� As used in this act, 
�senior resident� means a person who is 65 years of age or older and a resident 
of a county which has established a central registry pursuant to the provisions 
of P.L.��� , c. (C.������� ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).

���� b.��� Each county in the State 
may establish a central registry that allows senior residents to voluntarily 
register to receive additional assistance during an emergency.� A central 
registry created pursuant to this section shall be maintained by the county office 
of emergency management, and shall be composed of information provided by 
senior residents who wish to participate in the registry.� A senior resident 
shall provide the following information including, but not limited to, the 
registrant's name, address, telephone number, an emergency contact, and medical 
conditions. 

���� c.��� A county that creates a 
registry pursuant to subsection b. of this section shall conduct a public 
awareness campaign, utilizing the Internet and any other available resources, 
to inform the general public of the importance of registration by senior 
residents so that appropriate preparations may be made to ensure that these 
individuals receive necessary assistance. Information collected for 
purposes of a central registry created pursuant to subsection b. of this 
section shall be used only by the county office of emergency management that 
collected the information to prepare for and provide assistance to senior 
residents, and shall not otherwise be divulged or made publicly available; 
provided however, that the director of the county office of emergency 
management may, at the director's discretion, access and obtain information 
from a central registry maintained by a county office of emergency management 
if the information is used directly and exclusively by the director to prepare 
an Emergency Operations Plan required pursuant to section 19 of P.L.1989, c.222 
(C.App.A:9-43.2). 

���� d.��� A central registry 
maintained by a county office of emergency management and any information 
contained therein, or accessed and obtained by the director in accordance with 
subsection c. of this section, shall not be included under materials available 
to public inspections pursuant to P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) or 
P.L.2001, c.404 (C.47:1A-5 et al.).

���� e.��� Each county in the State 
may prepare and provide emergency supply kits for senior residents to use 
during emergencies. The items within these emergency supply kits shall be 
determined by each county office of emergency management in accordance with 
section 20 of P.L.1989, c.222 (C.App.A:9-43.3).

���� 2.��� There is appropriated 
from the General Fund to the State Office of Emergency Management such sums as 
may be necessary for the operating expenses of preparing emergency supply kits 
for senior residents, who have registered pursuant to Section 1 of P.L. , c. 
(C.������� ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), subject to the 
approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the 
Department of the Treasury. 

���� 3.��� This act shall take 
effect on the first day of the thirteenth month following enactment, but the 
Director of the State Office of Emergency Management may take such anticipatory 
administrative actions in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation 
of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill allows each county 
in the State to establish a central registry that allows senior residents, 65 
years of age or older, to voluntarily register to receive additional assistance 
during an emergency.� A county that creates a central registry is to conduct a 
public awareness campaign, utilizing the Internet and any other available 
resources, to inform the general public of the importance of registration by 
senior residents so that appropriate preparations may be made to ensure that 
these individuals receive necessary assistance.

���� Each county in the State may 
prepare and provide emergency supply kits for senior residents, who have 
registered t