New Jersey S 3510: Clarifies municipal consent over cemeteries.

Bill Text

S3510 

SENATE, No. 3510 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� ANTHONY M. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires employers whose employees are subject to 
contracts that are amendable and do not expire to provide earned sick leave. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning earned sick leave and amending 
P.L.2018, c.10.

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

���� 1.��� Section 8 of P.L.2018, 
c.10 (C.34:11D-8) is amended to read as follows: 

���� 8.��� a. The governing body of 
a county or municipality shall not, after the effective date of this act, adopt 
any ordinance, resolution, law, rule, or regulation regarding earned sick 
leave.� The provisions of this act shall preempt any ordinance, resolution, 
law, rule, or regulation regarding earned sick leave adopted by the governing 
body of a county or municipality.

���� b.��� No provision of this 
act, or any regulations promulgated to implement or enforce this act, shall be 
construed as:

���� (1)�� requiring an employer to 
reduce, or justifying an employer in reducing, rights or benefits provided by 
the employer pursuant to an employer policy or collective bargaining agreement 
which are more favorable to employees than those required by this act or which 
provide rights or benefits to employees not covered by this act;

���� (2)�� preventing or 
prohibiting the employer from agreeing, through a collective bargaining 
agreement or employer policy, to provide rights or benefits which are more 
favorable to employees than those required by this act or to provide rights or 
benefits to employees not covered by this act; 

���� (3)�� prohibiting an employer 
from establishing a policy whereby an employee may donate unused accrued earned 
sick leave to another employee or other employees; or

���� (4)�� superseding any law 
providing collective bargaining rights for employees, or in any way reducing, 
diminishing, or adversely affecting those collective bargaining rights, or in 
any way reducing, diminishing, or affecting the obligations of employers under 
those laws.

���� Employees or employee 
representatives may waive the rights or benefits provided under this act during 
the negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement.

���� c.���� With respect to 
employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement in effect at the time of 
the effective date of this act, no provision of this act shall apply until:

���� (1) the stated 
expiration of the collective bargaining agreement, or� 

���� (2) if the contract does 
not expire or terminate, on the date at which time the contract becomes 
amendable.� If a collective bargaining agreement in effect at the time of the 
effective date of P.L.2018, c.10 (C.34:11D-1 et seq.) became amendable on or 
after the effective of P.L.2018, c.10 (C.34:11D-1 et seq.) but before the date 
of enactment of P.L.��� , c.��� (pending before the Legislature as this bill), 
the provisions of P.L.��� , c.��� (pending before the Legislature as this bill) 
shall take effect upon the date of enactment of P.L.��� , c.��� �(pending 
before the Legislature as this bill).

(cf: P.L.2018, c.10, s.8)

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill amends the New 
Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law, N.J.S.A.34:11D-1 et seq., to clarify that 
collective bargaining agreements that are amendable rather than only those that 
expire or are terminable are subject to the provisions of the act.� 

���� When New Jersey�s Earned Sick 
Leave Law was enacted, it provided, with respect to workers subject to 
collective bargaining agreements in effect at the time the law was enacted, 
that the provisions of the law would apply to those workers upon the expiration 
of the collective bargaining agreements.� However, not all contracts are 
terminable in nature.� Some contracts, such as the contracts utilized in 
accordance with the �Railway Labor Act,� 
45 U.S.C. s. 151 et seq., become amendable at a 
certain time.� Once these contracts become amendable, a deliberative process 
ensues to create new working terms and conditions, and the status quo remains 
in effect until the creation of a new contract.� 

���� This bill ensures that workers 
who are subject to amendable contracts will receive sick leave under the 
State�s Earned Sick Leave Law.�