New Jersey S 173: Eliminates property tax exemption for for-profit cemeteries.

Bill Text

S173 

SENATE, No. 173 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires publication online of Senate Journals, 
Assembly Minutes, and their indexes.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning the publication of the Senate 
Journals and Assembly Minutes, and amending R.S.1:4-1 through R.S.1:4-4, and 
R.S.1:4-6.

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

���� 1.��� R.S.1:4-1 is amended to 
read as follows:� 

���� 1:4-1.� The Senate Journal, 
the Assembly Minutes, and the minutes of the joint meetings of both 
Houses of the Legislature shall be [printed] published 
in such style as the Senate and General Assembly shall direct, and shall be 
published by the Office of Legislative Services on its Internet site.� 

(cf: P.L.1981, c.448, s.8)

���� 2.��� R.S.1:4-2 is amended to 
read as follows:� 

���� 1:4-2.� The Secretary of the 
Senate shall cause to be prepared for [printing] publication 
copies of the Senate Journal in which shall be included the minutes of the 
joint meetings of the Legislature, as directed by the Senate; and the clerk of 
the General Assembly shall cause to be prepared like copies of the house 
minutes. The copies so prepared shall be delivered by the Office of Legislative 
Services [to 
the person having the contract to print the same].� The Office of Legislative 
Services shall publish the copies on its Internet site.� 

���� The President of the Senate 
or the Speaker of the General Assembly may direct the Office of Legislative 
Services to have printed on paper and bound as a volume not more than 10 copies 
of the journal or minutes, as appropriate, for an entire annual session.

���� Immediately after each copy of 
the Senate Journal and Assembly Minutes has been made and prepared for [printing] publication 
as required by this section, the originals shall be [deposited in] sent by 
electronic mail to the office of the Secretary of State, there to remain 
and [by 
him] 
be kept unaltered [and 
undefaced].

(cf: P.L.1981, c.448, s.9)

���� 3.��� R.S.1:4-4 is amended to 
read as follows:� 

���� 1:4-4.� The Secretary of the 
Senate and the Clerk of the General Assembly, respectively, shall prepare and 
deliver to the [printer] Office of 
Legislative Services an index of the Senate Journal and Assembly Minutes 
for the entire session.� The [printer 
shall print as many copies as the Senate and General Assembly direct] Office of 
Legislative Services shall publish the index on its Internet site.

(cf: P.L.1981, c.448, s.10) 

���� 4.��� R.S.1:4-6 is amended to 
read as follows:� 

���� 1:4-6.� a.� Any person 
desiring a complete set of the bills and resolutions introduced in any year in 
the Legislature, together with the usual index slips, daily memoranda, [advance parts 
of the Journal of the Senate and Minutes of the Assembly] and advance 
copies of laws, may file an application therefore with the Office of 
Legislative Services, accompanying the application with payment of an annual 
subscription fee in an amount to be fixed from time to time by the Legislative 
Services Commission.� Upon receipt of the application and fee, the Office of 
Legislative Services shall cause the name and address of the applicant to be 
added to the printer's mailing list of members of the Legislature, and 
thereafter during the year such bills and resolutions, slips, daily memoranda, [advance parts 
of the Journal and Minutes] 
and advance copies of laws shall be mailed by the printer to such applicant as 
and when the same are mailed to members of the Legislature.� 

���� b.��� Any person desiring an 
advance copy of each law, to be published and distributed prior to the printing 
of the annual edition of the laws as provided in R.S. 1:3-1, may file an 
application therefor with the Office of Legislative Services accompanying the application 
with payment of an annual subscription fee to be fixed by the Legislative 
Services Commission in the manner provided in subsection a. of this section.

(cf: P.L.1981, c.448, s.12)

���� 5.��� This act shall take 
effect on the first day of the first annual session of the 2024-2025 
Legislative Term.

STATEMENT

���� Under current law, the Senate 
Journals, Assembly Minutes, minutes of the joint meetings of both Houses of the 
Legislature, and their indexes, are printed and bound as a volume for each 
annual legislative session of each House. 

���� Under this bill, the journals, 
minutes, and indexes would be published online by the Office of Legislative 
Services, and not as bound volumes.� However, the President of the Senate or 
the Speaker of the General Assembly may have the Office of Legislative Services 
print not more than 10 copies of a bo