New Jersey S 704: Reforms annual State revenue estimating and reporting, and executive State budget presentation and revenue certification processes.

Bill Text

S704 

SENATE, No. 704 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator JOHN J. BURZICHELLI

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Senator RAJ MUKHERJI

District 32 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Amends current child labor laws to protect minor 
working as vlogger in certain circumstances.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning compensation for minors of family vloggers 
and amending and supplementing P.L.1940, c.153.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1940, 
c.153 (C.34:2-21.1) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.� (a) (Deleted by amendment, 
P.L.2022, c.63.)

���� (b) (Deleted by amendment, 
P.L.2022, c.63.)

���� (c) (Deleted by amendment, 
P.L.2022, c.63.)

���� (d) "School 
district" means any geographical area having authority over the public 
schools within that area.

���� (e) "Agriculture" 
includes farming in all its branches and among other things includes the 
cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, 
growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (including 
commodities defined as agricultural commodities in subsection (g) of section 15 
of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 46 Stat. 11 (12 U.S.C. s. 141 et seq.), as 
amended), the planting, transplanting and care of trees and shrubs and plants, 
the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals or poultry, and any 
practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a 
farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming 
operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market 
or to carriers for transportation to market, provided that such practices shall 
be performed in connection with the handling of agricultural or horticultural 
commodities the major portion of which have been produced upon the premises of 
an owning or leasing employer.

���� (f) "Newspaper 
carrier" means any minor between 12 and 18 years of age who engages in the 
occupation of delivering, soliciting, selling and collecting for, newspapers 
outside of school hours on residential routes.

���� (g) "Restaurant" 
means any establishment or business primarily engaged in the preparation and 
serving of meals or refreshments, both food and drink, and shall include but 
not be limited to the following: dining establishments, catering establishments, 
industrial caterers, and drive-in restaurants.

���� (h) "Theatrical 
production" means and includes stage, motion picture and television 
performances and rehearsals therefor.

���� (i) "Seasonal 
amusement" means any exclusively recreational or amusement establishment 
or business which does not operate more than seven months in any calendar year 
or which has received during any consecutive six months of the preceding calendar 
year average receipts equal to or less than 33 1/3% percent of its average 
receipts for the other six months of that year.� "Seasonal amusement" 
includes but is not limited to amusement rides and amusement device ticket 
sales, and operations of games.� However, "seasonal amusement" does 
not include retail, eating or drinking concessions, camps, beach and swimming 
facilities, movie theatres, theatrical productions, athletic events, 
professional entertainment, pool and billiard parlors, circuses and outdoor shows, 
sport activities or centers, country club athletic facilities, bowling alleys, 
race tracks and like facilities which are not part of a diversified amusement 
enterprise.

���� "Commissioner" means 
the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development.

���� "Department" means 
the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

���� "Caregiver" means a 
person over 18 years of age who is the biological parent, adoptive parent, 
foster parent, resource family parent, step-parent, parent-in-law or legal 
guardian, having a "parent-child relationship" with a child as defined 
by law, or having sole or joint legal or physical custody, care, guardianship, 
or visitation with a child, or who became the parent of the child pursuant to a 
valid written agreement between the parent and a gestational carrier.

���� �Family member� means a person related by blood or marriage, 
including civil unions and domestic partnerships, or whose close relationship 
with each other is considered equivalent to a family relationship by the 
individuals.

���� �Online platform� means any 
public-facing website, web application, or digital application, including a 
mobile application.� �Online platform� includes a social network, advertising 
network, mobile operating system, search engine, email service, or Internet 
access service.

���� �Name� means the actual or assumed name, or nickname, 
of a living individual that is intended to identify that individual.

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